Retrieved from: [First Published: 2013, October 29; Updated: 2014 June 29]Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: APN Role Exists in Country Today:In developmentTitle:In developmentNationally Certified:NoRecognize Foreign Licensure:UncertainTreatment Authority:UncertainPrescribing Authority:UncertainPractice Autonomously:UncertainContact:French Advanced Practice Nursing Network (REPASI)School of Public Health, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique, Paris [EHESP]Université de Versailles, St-Quentin-en-Yvelines [UVSQY] Retrieved from: Syndicat National des Professionnels Infirmiers [SNPI] (2013, October 13). Since the role is in development, it is uncertain to what type of advance practice nursing each professional will work at resembling the nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, or case management role (Bonnel, 2014).Meanwhile, current momentum based on graduate level education has developed a group of Advanced Practice Educated nurses who are developing the foundation of their role in France. Clinical sciences master in nursing.
Based on the current education that is promoting this role, individuals are educated to (UVSQY, 2013):While the country has been developing this role for several years, the greatest difficulties in establishing an APN role in France is that of agreement of what that role is to be and how the role will be solidified in the country (Joel, 2013). The doctor of nursing practice for entry into advanced practice.
Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) in France has recently begun with the recent introduction in 2010 of graduate level education in the country (Bonnel, 2014). Masters in clinical nursing sciences [Google translated version].
This program offers both master and doctoral degrees (Bellini & Cusson, 2012). Master in clinical nursing: Foreign experience [Google translated version]. Retrieved from: Université de Versailles, St-Quentin-en-Yvelines [UVSQY] (2013).
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The goal of the APN role in France is to provide an “intermediary” professional to meet the medical needs within the country (Joel, 2013). AANP Members Abroad. Retrieved from: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique [EHESP] (2013).
According to Bonnel (2014), the French advanced practice nurses have initiated a nursing organization, the French Advanced Practice Nursing Network (REPASI) in collaboration with the current French nursing organization (Anfiide, 2014, February 24).Education for Advanced Practice Nurses in France has been minimally at the master level since 2010 at the School of Public Health, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Publique, Paris (Bonnel, 2014; Bellini & Cusson, 2012).
Retrieved from: Bonnel, G. (2014, June). Since the beginning of graduate nursing education in France, a second program has also developed by the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (SNPI, 2013).Education for several specialties are offered for Advanced Practice Nurses in France (Bonnel, 2014; EHESP, 2013; SNPI, 2013):Bellini, S. & Cusson, R.M. An American NP’s involvement in the French APN movement: Galadriel Bonnel. The greatest motivator of developing the role of advanced practice nursing in France is to increase the access of the public to specialists, by increasing the number of specialists available and at a more affordable rate for an impending physician shortage (Bonnel, 2013; SNPI, 2013). At this time however, there is no protected title and educational programs are not consistent with their teachings according to a standard (Joel, 2013).