2024-10-17 15:20:00
At the end of an international conference, The National Professional Nursing Council (CNPI) recommends increasing the duration of initial nursing training in France to four years to, among other things, compensate “gaps in the fields of psychiatry, mental health, children’s health and critical care”. It also underlines the importance of promoting the personal health of caregivers from their training and of strengthening the place of general nurses in the health system. Communiqué.
The National Professional Nursing Council (CNPI) organized an international conference at the National Assembly in order to share with nursing personalities from Belgium, Finland, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal and international organizations (International Secretariat of French-speaking Nurses (SIDIIEF) – European Federation of Nurse Educators (FINE)) the modalities structuring the professionalization path of nurses in their countries. The aim was to open up perspectives for the reform of initial training in France. The exchanges, in particular with the deputies of the Social Affairs Committee of the Assembly, were mobilizing, as was the view of the representative of France Assos Santé.
To respond to the European directive (4,600 hours), not yet applied in France, the CNPI recommends increasing the duration of initial nursing training to four years (240 ECTS) (The majority of European countries train their nurses in 4 years) :
– via an innovative system taking into account reports of abandonment (during studies or in the first years after graduation) and the average duration of practice of a qualified nurse,
– strengthening the professionalization process and the acquisition of the skills necessary to deal with individual and population health situations (community health, aging of the population, residential transition, chronic illnesses, psychological disorders, precariousness, geopolitical, climatic and health crises, etc),
– compensating for gaps in the fields of psychiatry, mental health, children’s health and critical care.
In addition to the tutorial function to be protected in clinical environments as an activity in itself (dedicated time), the CNPI recommends a fourth year of professionalization on the model of the “junior doctor” to consolidate academic and practical learning in clinical environments, levers of employability and loyalty.
The CNPI also underlines the importance of promoting the personal health of caregivers from their initial training and throughout their career, as included in axis 4 of the periodic certification of health professionals. Because the feeling of belonging and the ability to feel “competent and safe” to analyze and decide on the care activities for which one is responsible are part of it, the junior year recommended by the CNPI is part of one of these actions contributing in particular to the personal health of the novice nurse.
Favorable for the development of the universityization of all health professions and in particular the nursing profession, the CNPI has formulated recommendations aimed at strengthening the place of general nurses in the health system in order to :
– succeed in the targeted transformation via the ongoing regulatory reform,
– converge the systems for initial university training and adaptation to employment taking into account the pivotal stages of investment and retention in employment, in particular entry into initial training and sequencing until graduation, the period key to the first job and then to the continuity of the professional career,
So many levers for this reform guaranteeing, in all territories, the balance of a sustainable health system for future generations. Nurses are essential players in the health system. Their expertise must be recognized to improve the service provided, the attractiveness of their profession and access to care.
The CNPI is made up of 19 national professional organizations (associations, learned societies, unions).
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