FUNCTIONS OF A NURSE

CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONS

Care giver
Clinical and

Rehabilitator
Comforter

Ethical decision
maker

Communicator
Teacher

Protector and clinical advocate Case manager

CARE GIVER
Helps client to regain health through healing process Addresses the holistic health care needs of the clients Helps clients and families to set goals and meet their goals She preserves dignity of the client She accepts clients as a person not merely as a mechanical beings

CLINICAL & ETHICAL DECISION MAKER

CLINICAL & ETHICAL DECISION MAKER

Uses critical thinking skills throughout nursing process Makes decision in collaboration with client & family members Collaborates and consults with other health care team members

PROTECTOR & ADVOCATE

PROTECTOR & ADVOCATE

She provides safe and conducive environment to the clients She takes steps to prevent injury to the client Protects clients from every possible adverse effects of drugs Asks about any allergy to food and drugs Provides immunization against disease Protects clients legal and human rights

MANAGER

NURSE MANAGER
She co-ordinates the activities of other health care team members Manages the nursing care to clients, families and to communities Delegates the nursing care to the auxiliary workers and other nurses

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COMMUNICATOR
Communicates with clients, families, other nurses, health care professionals and other resource persons Provides information related to health care Conveys information's through verbal and through documents Communicates information's while shift change to other nurse

COMFORTER
Provides comfort to the clients Motivates the clients to reach therapeutic goals

NURSE AS A LEADER

LEADER

Nursing leadership is defined as a mutual interpersonal influence through which nurse helps clients in making decision and achieving the goals to improve the client well being.

COUNSELLOR

Helps clients to cope with stressful, psychologic or social problems Assist the client to develop IPR Helps to adjust to difficulty situation Helps to develop new attitudes, feelings and behavior

REHABILITATOR

REHABILITATION
Rehabilitation is the process by which individuals return to maximal levels of functioning after illness, accident or other events

Nurse helps the client to adapt fully as possible who experiences physical or emotional impairment that changes their lives. Example for Rehabilitative activities: Teaching clients to walk with crutches.

TEACHER/EDUCATOR

NURSE EDUCATOR
Teaching refers to the activities by which the teacher helps the learner to learn. She determines that the client fully understood She also evaluates clients in progress in learning She also incorporates other resources such as family, in teaching plans She gives health education on diet, about preventive measures of disease.

RESEARCHER

NURSE RESEARCHER
Nurse Researcher investigates in order to improve nursing care & expand the scope of nursing practice