The Government published on Wednesday, April 30 at the Official Newspaper on Wednesday, April 30, the list of drugs and care that nurses in advanced practice (IPA) will be able to prescribe without intervention by a doctor.
The right of recipe, reserved for IPA that work in collaboration with doctors in a structure (hospital, health center …) is part of the current executive executive and parliament to respond to medical desertification.
It will allow specifically applying a disposition of the 2023 Rist Law, opening a direct access to nurses in advanced practice, without going through doctors.
A “fundamental advance”
The decree is “a fundamental advance that is part of the pact to combat the medical deserts that I carry with the Prime Minister and that reflects the ability of our health professionals to join forces to advance the health system,” said Minister of Health, Yannick Neuder, in X.
This “decisive advance for the recognition of IPA’s skills” reflects “an evolution of practices, a renewed confidence towards caregivers, but also a political will”, on the other hand welcome in a press release, the union of IPA UNIPA. “Now it remains to register these skills in” professionals with health insurance, he said.
Advanced practice nurses have two years of more studies than nurses, 5 years in total and have more extensive attention in attention. Around 3,000 IPA have been trained since the first promotion in 2019.
Exams, care … the prescriptions in question
According to the terms of the decree published on Wednesday, the IPAS may prescribe in particular work stops up to 3 days, health transport, basic analgesics, certain antidiarrhea, amoxicillin for bacterial angina in case of a positive test, phosphomicine without cystitis without complications, exams such as mammography or breast … …
These recipes “cannot be renewed without medical consultation”, specifies the decree. Depending on the specialty of IPA (polypatologies, oncology, renal disease, psychiatry, emergencies …), additional medications and care can be prescribed, but they can mainly be prescribed a previous medical diagnosis.
The nurse’s profession as a whole is evolving deeply. Currently, the Senate is considering that a bill refuses the legislative framework by framing the profession, which extends direct access to nurses.
“France finally begins to revolutionize its health system and the patient’s trip. It was time for patients to no longer could run out of medical deserts,” Gregory Caumes, an expert in lawyers and nursing defenders in care for a long time, told AFP.
Source: BFM TV
