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From time immemorial, psychiatry has been the focus of a number of associations. Starting out as charities on the bangs of asylum care, after the war they became a force for innovation and the forerunners of sector policy. After taking the medical-social turn in the 1970s, they spread out across the country in disparate fashion, providing local, low-capacity facilities that put patients' families at the forefront. With the post-1968 critique of institutions and the patriarchal system, followed by the AIDS years and the model of militant patients, the role of users became paramount. The proliferation of young peer-helper associations pursuing targeted partial objectives and relieving public authorities of their duty to assist is proof of this., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Since 2015, the Gironde has been divided into nine territorial poles in which the Mother and Child Protection teams operate. As part of this restructuring, a new position of nursery nurse was created: that of pole relay nursery nurse. This link between the management and the field is innovative and aims to improve the coordination of work., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The living lab is an approach that encourages the design and development of innovative technological solutions in a process of coconstruction involving users and other key players. Its methodology develops the technologies of the Broca living lab, dedicated to the care of elderly people with cognitive disorders and their carers., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The concept of advanced practice nursing and the way it has been adapted to the French context are still poorly understood. It is however rooted in a long history and is based on well-established international notions. After a phase of structuring, advanced practice nurses are now being deployed across the country, with their missions, their association and their own union. Two years after the first graduations, challenges remain but the future is promising., (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Background: The establishment of a common pragmatic terminology represents the first step in structuring patient engagement initiatives in healthcare facilities. However, none is currently available in French. As part of the deployment of patient engagement within a French University Hospital Center, we propose a terminology of patient engagement., Methods: We conducted a scoping review of the international literature that aimed at identifying the main conceptual and terminological frameworks for the engagement of patients, users and citizens in the healthcare system until 2019 in the PubMed and Cairn.info databases for English and French language articles. Additionally, we identified concepts and practices in the leading organizations of countries where this approach was implemented (United States, Canada and especially the province of Quebec, United Kingdom) and completed this approach by close exchanges and reflections with the team that developed the Montreal model., Results: In total, 75 references and Internet resources were consulted. Patient, interaction, patient experience, experiential knowledge, patient engagement, patient partner and its variations as a resource patient, peer-supporter, trainer, researcher and coach have been defined., Conclusion: This terminology of patient engagement proposes an initial stabilization of the vocabulary, using a pragmatic approach. This contribution is a first step aiming at promoting the development of a new model of care and more broadly of healthcare system management, involving scientific and experiential knowledge., (Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

A living lab is a usage-driven research and open innovation system. Users are at the centre of such an approach as experts of their day-to-day life and co-creators of values in the innovation processes. Projects are carried out in accordance with a specific methodology., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Emergency departments carry out an essential public service mission. They must be able to attend to anyone who arrives through their doors. Today, these departments are saturated, notably because they are having to respond to the insufficiency and lack of visibility of the community-based care provision. In this sense, users must be better informed of the options available to them upstream of the emergency departments. Finally, comprehensive reflection is necessary in order to improve the quality of patient reception in emergency departments., (Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

The staff working in health and medical-social services are a reflection of French society. Many of the employees of these services are migrants, from French overseas departments, whose descendants are particularly high in number in the Île-de-France region. Users of the services, from the 'white' majority group can display racist attitudes., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

There are numerous connected objects aimed at the 3.5 million people with diabetes in France. What do patients think of them and what use do they actually get out of them? Diabète LAB, the living lab of the French Federation of Diabetics, questions patients with diabetes about their experiences, their uses of the technical devices and health services, as well as their needs., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Applications and connected objects appear promising in the world of wellbeing and health. Often cheap, they offer numerous perspectives for health promotion, in targeted fields or to fulfil 'niche' needs. This growth, extremely fast over the last five years, has also given rise to potential defiance on the part of users., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

France Assos Santé brings together 72 accredited user associations across France. It represents the views of users on health issues, notably in the field of technological innovation and connected health where the challenges are considerable., (Copyright © 2017. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS.)

The user's perspective on the notion of nursing ethics is essential, in a context where the health democracy is becoming increasingly important. However, at a time when treatment is becoming cross-disciplinary, the user is right to reflect on the existence of distinct codes of ethics for each profession. To take into account the interest of the patient, a core foundation common to all the different professions could be envisaged, from the point of view of the ethics of care., (Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

Healthcare research is developing in France, notably through hospital nursing and paramedical research programmes. Few research projects involve the patients as investigators as part of collaborative studies. These approaches favour the involvement of all the players concerned. Thereby, healthcare research, due to its holistic dimension, encourages the development of collaborative practices between researchers, patients and caregivers., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The last thirty years have been marked by the distinct maturing and mobilisation of patient associations, as well as by the recognition of their expertise, enabling them to legitimately interact with public authorities and professionals. However, the representation system, built essentially around the defence of patients' rights, is struggling to implement the cultural changes necessary to ensure organisations and practices evolve towards a real exercising of these rights., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Seven years after the law of 2002 relating to patients' rights, the decree of 31st July 2009 introduced these rights into nurses' initial training. This has resulted in a few hours of theoretical training and tutorials based on the experience of the first internships. However, the training reference framework contains no mention of the active role which the patient should play in their healthcare pathway., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)