[Nursing students, the poor relation of the health care system]

Even if nursing students have obtained social progress following different periods of mobilization and negotiations, we must admit that their situation remains worrying. Many of them live in precariousness and undergo very difficult training conditions. Instrumentalized, even mistreated, by caregivers who are at the end of their rope because they work in institutions that are in a critical situation, the students no longer learn and perform the tasks of the missing staff. The Covid-19 crisis is a striking example of this.