threatening the health of patients, a 59-year-old nursing student excluded from his school

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The summary judge of administrative court de Melun confirmed the decision of Nursing Training Institute (IFSI) of the Sud Ile-de-France Hospital Group (GHSIF), based in Melun and Brie-Comte-Robert, in Seine-et-Marne, which had definitively excluded a 59 year old student in view of its “professional gaps”.

Repeats

This Congolese national actually practiced asnurse in his country of origin and had subsequently obtained a ministerial authorization to practice ascaregiver In France. In 2020, however, he decided to resume your studies and had therefore joined the IFSI of Melun. But on June 18, 2024, his director excluded him.

The fifty-year-old therefore urgently seized the summary judge of the administrative court on August 20, 2024 to obtain the suspension of this decision. He highlighted the fact that his schooling had “gone well” until then and that he had completed all his internships, even if he had redoubled his first year, as well as his second.

According to his explanations, the detailed report which had precipitated his exclusion in fact followed “an absence and a delay”. But he had also received an internship report very negative 18 May 2024, relevant “theoretical inadequacies real » and “a major difficulty in analyzing care situations”, after his third internship at the Château de Montjay residence, in Bombon.

“A particularly insufficient level”

Son stage in geriatrics had also “gone badly”. Furthermore, the jury had decided to purely and simply pronounce its permanent exclusion of the IFSI. There was therefore “urgency” to rule so that he could continue his training elsewhere.

“This student had been in retraining for three years even though the training takes place over three years and you can only repeat the course twice,” objected the lawyer for the hospital group.

Besides its level “particularly insufficient “, the person concerned “did not question himself” and presented gaps “serious” which had led to “ errors during training“. For example, he did not know how to “differentiate between an illness and a pathology” and more generally demonstrated a “ lack of rigor in the organization of care.

“It is common ground that the applicant benefits from ministerial authorization to exercise the functions of a caregiver,” begins by recalling the emergency judge in an order dated September 9, 2024 and which has just been made public. His exclusion from the IFSI therefore has “no impact” on his ability to “find work” as a caregiver. He himself had also indicated to the director of the IFSI, on August 14, 2024, that he had been “doing nursing assistant shifts” since his exclusion. “ The emergency » to rule is therefore notnot proven.

A question of “patient safety”

On the merits, “the applicant is accused of significant theoretical and practical gaps its lack of organization and the absence of taking into account the comments of the supervisory team, which could lead to a significant risk of accidentswith patients,” notes the summary judge.

For example, he had “not checked the identity of the patients before providing treatment”, nor “administered the correct doses”. He also did not know how to use tools or respect hygiene rules.

Son « lack of rigor » and “his inability to prioritize care for the same patient” had also been highlighted during his “seventh internship” as ahome nursein Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry. The next one, in the neurology department of the functional rehabilitation center of the Essonne clinic, in Evry, had demonstrated his “superficial” knowledge.

“Given the persistence of its inadequacies, the hospital group is justified in maintaining that the suspension of the decision wouldharm to the public interestwhich is attached topatient safety »deduced the judge.

The Melun administrative court will review the legality of this exclusion through acollege educationof three judges, but not before eighteen months to two years. If the decision were to prove illegal, then the applicant would be entitled to file a new appeal against the GHSIF to be compensated for his various “damages”.

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