[New nursing competencies since 2004 : scope and limits]

Since 2004, procedures which can be carried out by nurses have no longer been subjet to a single global decree and now feature in different legislative and/or regulatory articles. Since 2006, several laws and decrees have expanded the scope of nursing practice, but the lists of authorised procedures for a large part of the profession have not been updated, except for theatre nurses and nurse anaesthetists. The obsolescence of these regulatory lists is out of step with the technical evolution of care, the organisation of the health system and patients' needs.