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Introduction: The nursing role in elderly care has received increased attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is therefore essential to better understand the enactment of the nursing practice through professional activities carried out in long-term care facilities since the pandemic.Objective: To identify and synthesize the activities performed by nurses caring for elderly persons in long-term care facilities since the COVID-19 pandemic through a scoping review of literature from 2020-2023. A framework combining the Nursing Role Effectiveness Model by Irvine et al. (1998) and the Cadre de référence sur l’exercice infirmier auprès des personnes hébergées en centre d’hébergement et de soins de longue durée from the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (2018) will allow for the identification of independent, dependent and interdependent nursing activities in these settings.Method: The review will follow the scoping review method of the Joanna Briggs Institute (Peters et al., 2020). We will query CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PsycINFO databases to identify empirical studies published in English and French from 2020 to 2023. The selection of relevant studies will be carried out independently by 2 reviewers. Data on nursing activities will be extracted, categorized, and analyzed in line with the scoping review framework.Discussion and Research Spin-offs: This research will identify nursing activities since the COVID-19 pandemic through recent studies that have addressed this topic in the context of long-term care facilities. Recommendations will be made concerning activities that are infrequently or not at all carried out by nurses, as well as factors that influence these activities.

Keywords: aged persons, personnes aînées, long-term care, soins de longue durée, nurses, infirmières, professional activities, activités professionnelles, scoping review, revue de la portée

Background: Social accountability (SA) takes an important place in the accreditation requirements of Faculties of Medicine. We analyzed the evolution of SA in the undergraduate medical program at the University of Sherbrooke since the implementation of a complete curriculum in two distributed medical campuses.Methods: Using a qualitative and sequential research design anchored in Boelen's conceptual framework, we conducted a document analysis of strategic plans and accreditation documents between the years 2006-2023 to identify the SA actions of the medical program and generate an initial narrative with a timeline. Following three interviews and three focus groups with key actors at each campus, we developed a final portrayal of SA with a timeline.Results: The portrayal describes the way in which the faculty and its medical program planned their commitment in line with the identified health needs of the population (conceptualization), implemented actions to meet these needs (production) and verified that these actions “have had the greatest possible impact on people’s health” (usability). This approach demonstrates the time required to observe an increase in actions related to usability.Conclusions: This study made it possible to identify the work accomplished since 2005 by highlighting the strengths and challenges. This understanding of the road traveled, and the challenges encountered, will be shared with partners to identify further actions in response to the health needs of communities served. This approach and the resulting findings may serve as a source of information for other faculties of medicine interested in undertaking an analysis of their social accountability actions.

Keywords: éthique du care, soins, petite enfance, profession de la petite enfance, éducation préscolaire

Keywords: personnes étudiantes autochtones, persévérance scolaire, décrochage scolaire, postsecondaire, inégalités

Keywords: Revue narrative systématisée, médicalisation des naissances, accouchement non assisté, obstrétrique

This article explores the importance of transferring both tacit and explicit knowledge between traditional farmers, researchers and smart greenhouse operators within the rapidly evolving context of urban agriculture. Given the rapid pace of technological advancement, the use of knowledge life cycle mapping is essential to optimize practices in smart greenhouses. Limited space and real-time controlled growing conditions require tools to effectively organize and share critical information. Adapting traditional expertise in soil management, plant disease treatment and plant growth cycles to controlled environments maximizes productivity. This article presents various knowledge transfer models that aim to strengthen the connections between smart greenhouses and research institutions. This network promotes the integration of advanced technologies, including sensors and artificial intelligence, to develop sustainable and robust agricultural systems that are adapted to climatic realities, particularly in northern environments.

Keywords: Smart greenhouses, Serres intelligentes, urban agriculture, agriculture urbaine, agriculture traditionnelle, traditional agriculture, knowledge management, gestion des connaissances, knowledge life cycle, cycle de vie des connaissances, serres verticales, vertical greenhouses