THE ROLE OF NURSE IN HEALTHCARE

1. THE NURSE'S
ROLE IN
HEALTH CARE
SERVICE
PRESENTATION
BY SIMRANJEET KAUR

2. The contemporary nurse
functions in the inter
related role as follows

3. CARE GIVER

4. As a care giver, the nurse helps client
to regain health through healing process.
Nurse addresses the holistic health
care needs of the client.

5. She helps the client and families to set goals.
She preserves the dignity of the client.
She accepts a client as a person, not merely as
mechanical beings.

6. • The nurse uses critical thinking
skills throughout the nursing
process to provide effective care.

7. •Nurse makes decisions in
collaboration with the client and
the family
•She also collaborates and consults
with other helth professionals.

8. CLINICAL ADVOCATE

9. PROTECTOR AND ADVOCATE
• A nurse provides safe conducive environment to the
client.
• She takes steps to prevent injury to the clients.

10. CASE MANAGER
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11. •He protects the client from every possible
adverse effects of treatment.
•She asks about any allergy to medicine or food.
•she provides immunization against disease.

12. • She protects client's human legal rights and provides
assistance in asserting those rights if the need arises.
• She advocated the client by keeping in mind the
client's religion and culture.
• Nurse defends the clients right in general way by
speaking out against policies that might endanger
their well beings.

13. MANAGER
• As a manager, nurse coordinates the
activities of other health team members.
• She manages the nursing care of not only
one client but also of families and in
communities.
• She delegates the nursing activities to
auxiliary workers and other nurses.

14. REHABILITATOR
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15. •Rehabilitation is a process by which individual
return to maximal levels of functioning after
illness, accidents or other health events.
•Nurse helps the clients to adapt as fully possible
who experiences physical or emotional
impairment that changes their lives.

16. COMFORTOR
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17. • The role of a comforter is a traditional and historical one in
nursing and has continued to be important as a nurse have
assumed new roles.
• As a comforter, nurse provides comforts to the client
by considering him as an individual with unique feelings and
needs.
• She motivates clients to reach therapeutic goals.
• She promotes comfort to the client by staying near the
patient.

18. COMMUNICATOR
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19. Nursing involves communication with clients and families, other nurses, health
care team members, resource persons and the community.
As a communicator, nurse provides information to other teamnm
members about the palled and unplanned nursing care.
She conveys information verbally at change of shift.
She reports while shifting the client from one unit to the other.

20. TEACHER

21. • Teaching refers to the activities by which the teacher helps
the learner to learn a teacher.
• She determines that the client has fully understood.
• She also evaluates client's progress in learning.
• She incorporates other recourses such as family, in
teaching plans.
• Nurse gives health education on diet, about preventive
measure of disease.

22. LEADER

23. •As a leader, she influences the client to make
decisions regarding health.
•Nursing leadership is defined as a
mutual process of interpersonal
influence through which nurse helps client in
making decisions for establishing and achieving
the goals to improve the clients wellbeing.

24. COUNSELLOR
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25. •Nurse helps the client to recognize and cope
with stressful, psychological or social problems.
•She assists the client for developing god inter
personal relationship.
•Nurse helps the person to develop new
attitudes, feelings, and behaviors.

26. RESEARCHER
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27. • Nurse investigates problems in order to improve
nursing care and expand the scope of nursing
practice.
• She does many qualitative and quantitative
researches.
• Based upon these findings, they practice nursing care
in hospital as well as in the community setting.

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