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How can we alleviate the suffering of healthcare workers while maintaining the quality of health and social services provided to the population? In professional ethics, dialogue is often recommended to jointly arrive at solutions, but during crises, doesn’t the lack of importance given to dialogue aggravate the suffering of healthcare workers? This article addresses the taboo of healthcare worker suffering, aggravated by reforms and the COVID-19 crisis. It proposes a group reflective approach aimed at breaking the taboo and dispel-ling the confusion surrounding the psychological, ethical, and moral suffering of healthcare workers. The objective of this approach is to remedy the loss of meaning, professional burnout, and indifference experienced by professionals. This approach requires collaborative governance, fostering co-constructive dialogue and collective commitment from healthcare workers and managers, to find solutions to the dilemmas and conflicts of values. This thus ensures the achievement of the common mission to provide quality services to the population.

Keywords: Caregivers, Soignants, souffrance, suffering, crisis, crise, collaborative governance, gouvernance collaborative, éthique, ethics

The literary tradition has preserved three Artes Rhetoricae written for the last of the Valois kings, who reigned in France under the name of Henry III from 1574 to 1589. These three texts are Jacques Davy Du Perron's Avant-discours de rhetorique, ou Traitté de l'eloquence, Jacques Amyot's Projet de l'eloquence royale, and Germain Forget's Rhetorique françoise faicte particulierement pour le roy Henry 3. All three very likely originated as academic speeches pronounced at the Louvre, in the presence of Henry III, in the final sessions of the Palace Academy during the summer of 1579. This article offers a re-reading of the three treatises in order to situate them in the history of rhetoric. It aims to show how each author collects and presents teachings of the principal rhetorical traditions. Thus, Du Perron, inspired mainly by Quintilian and Cicero, proposes a kind of abridged version of the rhetorical thought of Latin Antiquity. Amyot, for his part, puts forth a synthesis of ancient Greek rhetorical theory starting with Plutarch, Dyonisius of Halicarnassus and Demetrius of Phalerus. Germain Forget provides an account of Renaissance innovations, by adopting the nomenclature of Peter Ramus under the rubric of elocutio. The objective of this essay is to shed light on the complementary nature of the three treatises, as well as to suggest a probable order in which they were presented to the King, following a logical gradation from the most general to the most specific.

The palliative and end-of-life care approach is recommended for people with end-stage dementia patients (ESDP). However, the quality of the care received is rarely evaluated. Background: Various measurement instruments aiming to assess the quality of end-of-life (EOL) in people with dementia exist. However, none of them are available in their entirety in French. A literature review identified the End-of-life care in dementia (EOLD) as a promising tool. Objective: Translate and culturally adapt the EOLD. Methods: A five-step process was performed: three French translations, a synthesis of the French translations, a reverse translation in English, a committee of experts and a test of the experimental version. Results: While the translation process was relatively straightforward, some items presented translation and adaptation challenges, including "Shortness of breath", "Gurgling" and "Skin breakdown". The difficulties encountered during the translation process were semantic, idiomatic and conceptual. Discussion: The use of a standardized translation process made it possible to produce a French version faithful to the original version. Conclusion: An experimental version of the EOLD in French has been developed. However, other studies are needed to validate the French version of the instrument and assess its psychometric qualities.

Keywords: Palliative and end-of-life care, Soins palliatifs et de fin de vie, Démence, dementia, TNCM, relatives, Proches, translation of a measuring instrument, Traduction d'un instrument de mesure, End-of-life care in Dementia, End-of-life care in Dementia

The article examines the role of sociocultural community developers in supporting seniors in Switzerland, particularly in urban context. It highlights the challenges posed by an ageing population and the need to adapt practices to meet new needs. Historically, sociocultural community development has been focused on young people, but it has gradually spread to other audiences, including the elderly. The authors refer to two recent studies that explore the uses of urban space by seniors and the fight against social isolation. They claim the crucial role of animation in building a more just and democratic society. Sociocultural community developers must be agents of change, advocating for the better integration of older people in both social and political life and combating negative representations of old age.

Keywords: envejecimiento, vieillissement, ageing, animación sociocultural, sociocultural animation, animation socioculturelle, isolement social, social isolation, aislamiento social, urban space, espacio urbano, espace urbain, politique publique, política pública, public policy

People who use drugs (PWUD) experience stigma when accessing hospital-based healthcare, including emergency care. Rural settings are of particular concern, due to heightened social-structural stigma toward PWUD in smaller communities. These barriers have been exacerbated further by recent narratives in media and political attention on the risks to healthcare providers when exposed to PWUD using substances while in hospital. Nurses’ voices have been used directly and indirectly to influence political discourses to raise moral panic regarding workplace exposure to second-hand smoke from unregulated substances (e.g., fentanyl and methamphetamine). Immediate collective nursing action is required to protect nurses’ professional and ethical obligations and ensure safe and stigma-free access to hospital care for rural PWUD in the current political climate in British Columbia, Canada.

Keywords: occupational exposure, exposition professionnelle, profession de soins infirmiers, nursing profession, troubles liés à l’utilisation de substances, substance use conditions, politique en matière de drogues, drug policy, plaidoyer, advocacy

Keywords: aide médicale à mourir, consensus, droit constitutionnel, handicap, euthanasie, suicide assisté

In Switzerland, the police profession has been busy since 2020 with a new general concept for the basic training of police officers. This nationwide transformation provided the opportunity to launch a longitudinal study that repeatedly questioned a cohort of cadets by questionnaire, from the start of their training until their entry into the profession. This article looks back at how the research was set up, and presents and discusses some of the results from the exploratory phase of the project. These preliminary results highlight changes in the organisational and affective commitment of cadets who completed the basic training over two years. We show a clear decline in this commitment over time, but starting from a very high level at the beginning of the training.

Keywords: police, police, training, formation, engagement organisationnel, organizational commitment, longitudinal approach, approche longitudinale