Abstract

This study is based on doctoral research (2022) and focuses on the consequences of the reform of nursing training in 2009 on the mechanisms of recognition between trainers within nursing training institutes in France (IFSIs). The method is based on forty semi-structured interviews and the analysis of the written records produced by these trainers within the framework of integration units. The results drawn from the cross-reference of these analyses lead us to propose three typical configurations reflecting distinct forms of relationship to knowledge and conceptions of the professions of nurse and nurse trainer. We then discuss, in the context of the professionalization of a professional group, the hidden issues of recognition between peers.