[Preparing student nurses for critical care placements, a quasi-experimental mixed study].

Weaving a link between the academic pathway in nursing schools and health care facilities. To co-create a new and adaptive training for nursing students called to do a placement in an intensive care unit. To facilitate their integration and reduce their apprehension in a highly technical clinical environment.

[Leadership and advanced practice nurses].

Clinical leadership is expected of advanced practice nurses with regard to their scope of competencies. The effective implementation of this competency within the teams requires management support. It is a first step towards the reinforcement of clinical leadership in France.

[The compassionate care approach within an institutional framework].

The motivations for promoting a policy for the implementation of a compassionate care approach in the nursing sector appear commendable and respectable. The relatively recent notion of compassionate care seems to be accepted as long as it is used consensually. What is the meaning of compassionate care? Which benchmarks should be used for its implementation within a health institution?

[The patient pathway, an essential element of the care project].

Constructing an innovative care project in oncology, common to two healthcare institutions with different statuses, was a challenge for the directors of nursing of the Claudius-Regaud Institute and Toulouse university hospital. The patient care pathway was a major organisational element of the project, keyto ensuring high quality patient care, from the diagnosis through to the personalised post-cancer plan.

[Oral communication, for the spread and transfer of knowledge].

The continuous improvement of the quality of care in the personalised management of each patient requires practitioners to consciously use the best current data resulting from clinical research. The oral communication of the results of research work is one of the methods of optimising the scientific, pedagogical and social value of nursing and allied healthcare research.

[Perception and attitude toward pain].

Traditionally, the pain sends back to the infringement of the flesh and the suffering on the infringement of the psyche. The relation of care and the accompanying are due to nature a social fact of relation. In the right line of a first study (Péoc'h et al.

[Professional values: a strategic component of health professionals. The contribution of decisional research at the Toulouse University Hospital Center].

The organizational involvement concept is often developed by many researchers and practitioners. This study is in the right inheritance of Allen and Meyer (1990) and Thevenet and Neveu (2002) works who all considered the involvement as "an affective or emotional attachment towards the organization such as an individual strongly involved identifies himself, reinforces his own agreement and enjoys being a member of the organization that employs him". The aim of this study was to demonstrate the impact of professional values (in terms of adherence to the purposes, norms and values of the establishment upon the subject's involvement in professional activities).

[Nurses and nursing care research].

Nurses and nursing care research. Nursing practice is fundamentally a work of creation. Unique, singular, appropriate and helpful to the patient, every act of care aims to take root in the subtle fertile soil of the nursing art.

[Well treatment and ethics of care. Similarities and differences concerning the scientific review].

Neologism or new concept, the term "bientraitance" in french appeared historically in the disciplinary field of childhood and geriatrics. Difficult to translate in the Anglo-American language, this word does not present a theoretical approach and a precise conceptual modeling. Use the term "bientraitance" in opposition with the term "maltreatment" seems reducing the notion.

[The Leonetti law relative to the patients' rights and end of life. From educational measurement of knowledge to thinking about professional practices].

Version 2 of accreditation, known as "certification" by 13 th August 2004 law, introduces assessment practices. The opportunity of introducing these practices, offers to the of introducing these practices, offers to the whole health professional members the possibility of using concretely in their practices, the results and knowledge issued in health taking care research. Registered in a dual approach (research and process quality), the research we have driven aimed to analyze the knowledge, the attitudes and the practices associated to the Léonetti Law Act (Act no 2005-370 from 22nd Apr 2005, in reference with patients' rights and the end of life), towards all kind of health professionals.

[Representations and induced pain: benchmarks, memory, discussion...towards the premises of comprehension].

As part of qualitative research for the CLUD of the Hospitals of Toulouse, we studied for two years how the social representations of health professionals could contribute to clarify the practices of consideration of "pain resulting from care". As part of the theory of social representations, we rested on the notion of professional representation. Professional representations are representations concerning outstanding objects (pain resulting from care) belonging to a specific professional environment (health professionals).