[The McGill model and local community service centers. A fetching combination].

How can the use of a specific conceptual model help nurses provide care that is best suited to their clients' real needs? The McGill model, for example, seems to be appropriate to community health applications, for it concentrates on health promotion and brings together all the elements underlying a family-development view of care. The authors of this article describe the basics of the McGill model, in terms of the four concepts of the nursing metaparadigm (health, the person, the environment and nursing (and discuss a concrete example of a health situation.