In a country where the training of nurses develop the capacity of curative care, leaving a limited part in the promotion of health, the public health nurse is not known.
The public health nurse is the nurse of “any court” not only by the type of approach, the first collective to individual for the second but by its representation of men and health. The nature of their activities will be based on different concepts and the place of the individual devices will be changed. The nurse refers the person (usually a woman), which provides comfort in times of painful illness. The nurse is also the one that makes the link between the doctor and between “what is happening,” what will happen, “what will I do” … It is much less clear for the “public health nurse.
It therefore seems difficult that the nurse specializing in public health as it does for the techniques of surgery or nursery. The formation of the public health nurse should enable it to understand human health and a truly global with tools and methods specific differentiated care. Moreover, such training should enable them to exchange experiences with other types of non-professional caregivers, such as social workers and people (or caregivers) of different cultures … to affect the diversity and complementarity approaches to health. In other words, training can be specific to the nurse, public health training aimed at other health professionals or social development: the DESS “Health Promotion and Social Development:
The nurse of “public health” with his particular vision of man and his health could then propose an alternative and complementary products under the care, support and prevention.