[Inside the French reform of nursing education: a survey of faculty members].

Changing societal health care needs has led the Ministry of Health to rethink the paramedical courses. European harmonization was needed to set up this training with the LMD system within a university scheme. Based on this new paradigm, an educational reform consisting of a competency-based approach was implemented, leading to major modifications in the function of a trainer.

Educating diabetic children: integrating representations by children aged 7 to 11 and their parents.

Objective: A patient living with a chronic disease develops illness-related knowledge, representations, and specific behaviour leading to attitudes. Our objective was to assess the interaction between representations from diabetic children 7 to 11 years of age and their parents, on the disease and its treatment, in order to improve the therapeutic education process.

Method: A qualitative approach was developed.