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Appointed Director General of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in February 2019, Howard Catton is committed to ensuring that the ICN can effectively represent nursing around the world. He firmly believes that nurses must be at the heart of health policy decisions. With a nursing diploma and a master's degree in labor relations, he held a number of nursing positions in England and the United States before joining the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. For ten years, he directed the political and international affairs of the UK's Royal College of Nursing, then led ICN's action during the Covid-19 pandemic, while positioning himself in favor of protecting and investing in the nursing profession., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Safety during drug administration remains a major concern in nursing, particularly when it comes to calculating doses. The Institut et Haute école de la santé La Source in Lausanne, in partnership with the Avatarion company, has set up a co-development project using the humanoid robot Pepper as an assistant for double-checking dose calculations. Feedback from test users has been positive, although there is room for improvement., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The concept of holism remains difficult to grasp and to teach because of its polysemous nature. In the current reflections on the construction of nursing curricula, it seems necessary to propose some reference points in the meaning given to this widely used but little conceptualized notion. Nursing shares a unique and holistic view of patients, yet nursing education, rooted in the substance of nursing, remains undefined. Drawing on the work of English-language theorist Hesook Suzie Kim, this article explains part of her model of nursing practice analysis. This model is composed of four distinct domains that address the need to identify the holistic dimension of nursing knowledge to be taught., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Born in 1945 in the United States, the activity of home hospitalization (HH) did not stop developing in France after the 1950s. However, it was not recognized by the regulatory authorities and supervisory bodies until 1970. HH allows patients suffering from serious acute or chronic pathologies to continue to benefit seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, at home, from technical and complex, frequent and coordinated care, inaccessible to city care. It is a central health policy issue in patient care., (Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

There are more than four million nurses in the United States. In a context marked by the Obamacare vote and by an awareness of the underutilization of nursing potential, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in association with the Institute of Medicine, published an inventory of the nursing situation in the United States in 2011, along with an action plan. In 2016 and 2021, the evaluation of the degree to which these objectives were achieved revealed numerous advances. New strategic directions have been set for the period 2020-2030., (Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

Towards Advanced Practice for Nurses in Psychiatry: Advanced nursing practice in psychiatry is a major challenge for the discipline. It must meet the needs of the population as well as conform to national policies and tackle the problems within the mental health and psychiatric sector. For a long time, psychiatric nurses have developed their practices on the basis of precise indications and health policies. Advanced practice will not be able to replace these existing situations., (Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

Developments in cyberhealth are now accessible to all patients and healthcare professionals. These tools enable expert advice to be provided remotely and ensure a continuity of care for all those who need it. Telecare is developing across the world, as are networks of nurses who practise it and researchers who analyse the results., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)