[At-home nursing care, challenges and perspectives].

Private practice nursing is evolving in line with the major mutations taking place within French society and the health system. These evolutions require nurses to adapt to significant changes. Their clinical, cultural and organisational skills, in particular, enable them to face up to these challenges and to anticipate in order to be able to provide the best possible care in future. Private practice nursing could thereby become a speciality in its own right based on the World Health Organization's model of a "family health nurse".