[Redefinition of professional roles: if we re-started again from patients?]

Redefining professional roles: should we re-start from patients? The redefinition of nursing competences is a need determined by the progressive changes of the health system and health professions. If on one side the definition of what nurses can or cannot do helps to render more visible the nursing profession, on the other also the WHO agrees that a rigid definition is not realistic. The constantly evolution of technologies and systems reshapes the boundaries between health professions. The actual debate is strikingly centered on professions (what each profession gains or looses, increase or loss of responsibility or power) and only rarely from patients' needs.