Advanced practice nursing in France: A critical reflection of the past five years

Abstract

According to De Raeve et al. (2023), only 11 European countries declared that advanced practice nursing was the subject of legislative recognition and a specific training curriculum. France is a pioneer among French-speaking countries in recognizing advanced practice nursing roles (Colson, Muller, et al., 2021;Colson, Schwingrouber, et al., 2021). As a genuine public health issue, the development of advanced practice nursing has been a hot topic of political debate, generating a significant number of legislative and regulatory updates in just 5 years. Although France lags considerably behind Englishspeaking countries, recent advances can help overcome obstacles to the establishment and sustainability of these new roles, which are described in this article.