Complex nursing interventions

Nursing interventions are complex by nature; their characteristics correspond to the definition of a complex intervention in health as defined by the "Medical Research Council framework of complex interventions in health": such interventions often have multiple components with interactions between them; they require expertise and skills to deliver or receive the intervention, and the components or the intervention as a whole may be flexible or tailored to suit an individual. The research carried out at HEdS-FR on complex nursing interventions is guided by this framework, which encourages researchers to develop, test, evaluate and implement complex interventions in care, and also to develop key elements that will enable innovative interventions to be adjusted to what is required in the field.