[Nursing consultations in pain assessment and treatment facilities].

The concept of nursing consultation takes on its full meaning with people suffering from chronic pain. The Société française d'étude et de traitement de la douleur (French Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain), and more specifically its professional nursing commission, has drawn up a reference framework of consultation activities on which pain resource nurses (PRNs) can draw. This describes the various stages in the management of chronic pain patients.

[The pain resource nurse consultation guidelines].

The cross-disciplinary activities of pain resource nurses were provided with guidelines in 2007. Due to the development of their role in care structures and the ongoing organisation of the nursing activity, guidelines relating to their consultation activities were drawn up in 2016. These describe the circumstances in which a pain resource nurse may intervene and the types of consultation she carries out.