A report published Thursday shows that the number of female students who interrupt their studies from the first year has tripled in ten years.
After the publication of an alarming report, François Braun wants to react. The Minister of Health announced on Friday May 12 that he wanted “changing the nursing profession” through a reform of training and the profession, “because health” has changed, he justified in a video clip released by the ministry. “We need to modify the skills, modify the drill” of the profession, which “is part of the spine” of health in France, explained the Minister, on the occasion of International Nurses Day.
With regard to the profession itself, François Braun seeks “to give assignments” to nurses, whose profession is now governed by a decree which strictly delimits the acts they can perform. It is necessary that in these “assignments”nurses can work “hand in hand with doctors”he explained Thursday on CNews. “This is also how doctors will be able to take care of more patients”he added.
This evolution towards “assignments” was greeted on Friday by the president of the Order of Nurses, Patrick Chamboredon. “We are delighted with the announcement of the opening of work on the transition from a decree of acts to a decree of missions”said Patrick Chamboredon in a press release. “This is a request that the Order has been carrying out for many years”he added.
Three times more abandonment in ten years
Faced with the chronic shortage of doctors, the government is firing on all cylinders to manage to relieve them of all the tasks that can be done by others, whether they relate to care or administration. The government also wants to deal with the paradox of a high dropout rate for first-year nursing students, when this training is the most requested by high school students on Parcoursup (90,000 requests last year, for 38,000 places today). today).
According to a report published Thursday by the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees), che dropout rate has tripled in ten years. The number of female students who interrupt their studies from the first year of training has in fact increased from 3 to 10%. François Braun wants to succeed “at the start of the 2024 academic year, a complete overhaul of training”he explains in the clip.