Functions of a nurse

FUNCTIONS OF A NURSE
Presented By: Sathish Rajamani M. Sc (N)

CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONS
 Care giver
 Clinical and
Ethical decision
maker
 Protector and
clinical advocate
 Case manager
 Rehabilitator
 Comforter
 Communicator
 Teacher

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 DECISIONMAKER
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
 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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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order to improve nursing care &
expand the scope of nursing
practice
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