Revue de l'infirmière
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Revue de l'infirmière · Feb 2016
[Ebola crisis in Guinea: psychosocial support for patients and caregivers].
The experience of the French military health service in the fight against the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, highlights the importance of what favours the emergence of an institutional life in a context of care faced with numerous constraints and extraordinary challenges. The meticulous drawing up of procedures and the juxtaposition of expertise goes hand in hand with the construction of a triangular care system (caregivers-patients-families). This relational approach ensures each player in this system is able to find their place and a balance between constraints and satisfactions, losses and successes, isolation and support. This balance seems to favour individual and group resilience.
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Revue de l'infirmière · Feb 2016
[Hospital perspectives on the end of life, the case of homeless people].
The hospital is the last refuge for sick homeless people when their illness makes life on the street impossible. The teams often consider these patients as different, difficult and not easy to place in a specific type of care. In palliative care, fewer questions are raised as the patients are hospitalised for their terminal phase. The difficulties often lie in diagnosing the disease and recognising its seriousness and the patient's social situation.
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Revue de l'infirmière · Jan 2016
Review[Nepal earthquake: nursing missions in Paris and Kathmandu].
A violent earthquake hit Nepal on 25th April 2015, injuring and killing thousands. A nurse manager and a nurse, both working in anaesthesia and reservists in the French Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Organisation, describe their mission: one working in the crisis centre in Paris, the other on the ground, providing assistance to French victims.
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Revue de l'infirmière · Nov 2015
[Guinea: the army nurses caring for health workers infected with Ebola].
In the first half of 2015, army nurses from the French Army, worked with the Conakry health worker treatment centre in Guinea. Their aim was to save the lives of health workers risking their lives in the fight against the Ebola epidemic. This article describes a mission which proved memorable both on a human and professional level.