[Therapeutic education in the transplant patient's pathway].

The success of a transplant in the long term depends to a large extent on the taking of immunosuppressant treatments and its follow-up. Therapeutic education plays an important role in the follow-up of transplant patients and in nurses' daily practice. It is integrated into the patient's pre-transplant care.

[Physician-patient communication in nephrology].

Training the nephrologist-to-be to physician-patient communication (PPC) has several objectives: to guide his/her history taking in order to make a diagnosis, of course, but also to help him/her establish a long-lasting relationship, inform and motivate the patient, and prepare him/her to break bad news and to deal with end-of-life issues. PPC rests on specific strategies and on the ethical grounds of a human encounter, the success of which expresses itself in care. An effective PPC offers many benefits to the patient, but also to the clinician.