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This article describes the different skills which a school nurse can be brought to mobilise while practicing his/her profession. In French speaking Switzerland, these professionals acquire general community health training after receiving their basic training. The specificity of their target population group (students and their families), the context of their workplace (the school and its various actors), their daily interdisciplinary practice all put into question the adequacy of this training. The goal of this work was the formulation of the different skills required in order to conduct well their complex professional activity, in the format of a referential of competencies, prior to the development of a more specific training programme. The referential was built upon the basis of the « professional-group » approach; it was compiled from the analysis of working situations representative of the diversity in practice, by a group of confirmed professionals.