Patients and relatives

Guidance for this audience

• Preparing the home before leaving hospital

  What is best sorted the day before discharge so the first nursing visit is spent on care, not on hunting for supplies.

  2 min read

• Insulin, dressings, syringes: where and how to store them

  The storage mistakes we see most often in homes, and how to avoid them without turning the kitchen into a pharmacy.

  2 min read

• Home nursing care: what French health insurance covers

  Prescription, sector 1, direct billing, top-up cover: the billing route explained plainly, without coding jargon.

  2 min read

• How we work with your GP

  Who decides what, what we report, and when we pick up the phone — coordination seen from the inside.

  2 min read

• The nursing care assessment: what actually happens at home

  For a dependent person, home nursing is funded by needs covered rather than by individual acts. Here is how the assessment is carried out, what it changes for you, and what it does not.

  2 min read

• Vaccination at home: what a nurse can do

  Since vaccination competencies were widened, nurses may administer several vaccines without a prior prescription. What that means in practice when leaving home is difficult.

  2 min read

• Pressure sores and falls: the two risks that unfold between visits

  Both complications build up outside our visits, in the hours when nobody is there. What relatives can watch for, and when to call us.

  2 min read

• How home nursing works in France

  Who prescribes, who treats, who pays, who coordinates: the full chain between patient, doctor, nursing practice, health insurance, laboratory and hospital, explained without jargon.

  2 min read

• Chronic wounds at home: what the nurse does, week by week

  A wound that has not healed after six weeks becomes a chronic wound. Here is what home care actually involves: assessment, protocol, monitoring, warning signs and the exact role of everyone involved.

  2 min read

• Insulin-treated diabetes: what a nursing visit changes

  Injection, blood glucose, feet, hypoglycaemia alerts: the exact role of the home nurse for a person on insulin, and what stays in the hands of the patient and the doctor.

  2 min read

• Home infusion and IV antibiotics: what actually happens

  IV line, implanted port, pump, intravenous antibiotics: what home infusion really involves, what is monitored, what should raise the alarm and who steps in when something goes wrong.

  1 min read

• Hospital discharge: arranging the nursing handover at home

  What the practice asks for, what it guarantees and within what deadlines, so a hospital discharge becomes home care with no gap: the call, the documents, the first visit, the supplies, the written report.

  2 min read

• Home blood draws: what really decides whether a result is reliable

  Between the needle and the laboratory analyser, a tube goes through a critical hour. Here is how the practice organises timing, patient identification, transport and result handling with local laboratories.

  2 min read