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The home visit is a nursing practice more particularly developed within the framework of the medico-psychological centre. Going to the patient's home to ensure continuity of care is not an easy task. Although approached in a nursing training institute, it cannot be learned. Clinical situations are sometimes explosive or disconcerting, undermining the helpless and inadequately prepared nurse. Supervision of nursing practices can be life-saving and allow everyone to make sense of clinical situations. Feedback from experience.

this article provides a new knowledge on employer's support for home care nurses' continuing education.so far, literature has sustained that providing support to nurses in continuing education is mainly a matter of money. However, only few researchers have been interested in home care, especially in continuing education.one of the objectives of the survey was to identify factors that could influence nurses' commitment, participation and choice in the matter of continuing education activities.a qualitative survey was conducted with eight nurses, coming from one clinical home care setting (Québec, Canada), who participated in a semi-structured individual interview. Thematic analysis was used. Results were validated by intra- and inter-rater controls. Furthermore, participants were involved in the process of validation. Results have shown that support given by the employer in the matter of continuing education can be seen into five different aspects : financial, training, affective, instrumental and normative. Despite a lack of financial and training support, most of home care nurses have a positive perception of their employer's support.nevertheless, employers should pay more attention to nurses' needs. To do so, nurses should be involved into the process of continuing education at their workplace.

The question of secularism, long-time confined to schools and the relationships between the Church and State, is today being raised in the field of public health. Nurses are directly affected and are integrating this dimension of secularism into their care practices. A private practice nurse describes the effect these changes are having on her practice in patients' homes.

The richness of nursing practice is expressed notably by the holistic character of the care provided. In their practice in patients' homes, nurses sometimes come up against regulatory constraints which determine the refunding of patients' treatment and take insufficient account of the global nature of the treatment carried out.