Nursing students: a tool assesses the quality of training

While 7 out of 10 nursing students (ESI) consider abandoning their course faced with degraded training conditionsthe National Federation of Nursing Students (Fnesi) is launching the ESI’meter, a self-assessment tool for the quality of the training environment. Communiqué.

Mental health, great cause of the year 2025, renewed in 2026, announced by the Government. However, according to annual statistics, more than a hundred nursing students (ESI) contact Fnesi by email each month, and daily, more than 10 ESIs call the Fnesi telephone line. In 2025, according to the Fnesi Well-Being survey, 7 out of 10 ESI have already thought about stopping training.

ESI’meter, a self-assessment tool for the quality of the training environment.

One year after the release of the Well-Being 2025 survey, Fnesi provides a concrete solution against the deterioration of students’ mental health: the ESI’meter. This tool is a sociometer allowing the evaluation of the quality of training perceived by students. Not being aware of actions that are too often trivialized, students are victims of a profound dysfunction in the training system.

The training conditions for ESIs are harmful. They must be prevented, treated and sanctioned. Students must be accompanied.

While 7 out of 10 ESIs have already thought about stopping training, it is necessary to raise awareness among those involved in training about the training conditions for nursing students. Whereas the desire to train more leads to a deterioration of training and normalizes situations which should not be. This tool, designed from Fnesi’s regular well-being surveys, highlights the problems that too many students encounter. It makes it possible to evaluate the training environment of nursing students. Faced with this type of violence, those involved in training must be concerned. Together, let’s act for the training conditions of tomorrow’s professionals!

The caregivers of tomorrow must not be sacrificed.

The ESI’meter is a solution provided by Fnesi but should not replace concrete actions for the well-being of nursing students. At the dawn of training reform, inequality persists between nursing students and students on university campuses. Access to university services, and more broadly to the university as a central player in training, guaranteed for all nursing students, would be a major step forward in improving their state of health.

The FNESI recalls the need for equal access to university for all higher education students.

Press release of March 27, 2026