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Medical deserts: meeting with Victorine, a nurse who lightens the workload of doctors in a town in Picardy
Medical deserts: meeting with Victorine, a nurse who lightens the workload of doctors in a town in Picardy
(France 2)
In Picardy, the town of Trois-Rivières has four doctors who take turns at the Maison de santé de l’Avre. Victorine Fongueuse, a nurse, takes charge of some of the consultations. A relief for her colleagues and her patients.
In Trois-Rivières, in Picardy, there are only four general practitioners for 1,500 inhabitants. They all consult at the Maison de santé de l’Avre. Victorine Fongueuse, a nurse delegated to public health, supports them. The caregiver consults and advises her patients, while the doctors rarely have more than 15 minutes to devote to them.
Victorine has thus become an essential support for general practitioners in the surrounding area: “This allows us to be able to exchange and to be able to get things off our chest a little, as professionals, and to say to ourselves ‘I’m not alone facing this patient who is complicated'”confides Dr Julie Cartelle, one of the four general practitioners at the Maison de Santé. “We have more intimacy with you”admits Christine, a patient of the nurse, who “dare” tell Victorine more things. Today, in France, almost one in five doctors works in tandem with a nurse.