Soins; la revue de référence infirmière
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The number of patients attending emergency departments is constantly growing. They are fast becoming a place of primary care. ⋯ The reception of the patients by the triage nurse is professional. With tension often high in emergency departments, triage nurses play a role in defusing situations, which could constitute the next area of focus of their professionalization.
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Proposal no. 10 in French Senate information report no. 685, drawn up by the Social Affairs Commission on hospital emergency departments, opens the debate regarding the creation of an emergency nursing speciality. Does this represent progress for the profession or an inadapted measure? The complex situation of emergency departments raises the need for methodological thinking on this subject.
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The measurement of the ankle-brachial pressure index is essential for the treatment of leg ulcers. In the framework of the imminent implementation of advanced practices in France, nurses specifically trained in wound care and healing could be authorised to take and interpret this measurement. Venous compression techniques could therefore be adapted more precisely to the needs of the patients.
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Acute pain is a symptom enabling us to implement a response when faced with an attack. Chronic pain is complex and multifactorial. The care of the patient by a multidisciplinary team comprises the diagnosis of the pain and the putting in place of a treatment for each of its components. This includes physical reconditioning, adaptation strategies and work on the psychological elements relating to the representation of the pain.