The key functions of nurses include acting as caregivers, clinical decision makers, advocates, case managers, rehabilitators, comforters, communicators, teachers, and researchers. As caregivers, nurses help clients regain their health through the healing process and address their holistic healthcare needs. They also preserve clients' dignity, accept them as individuals, and help clients and families set and meet healthcare goals. Additionally, nurses use critical thinking to make ethical clinical decisions, protect clients, communicate effectively with the healthcare team, provide comfort, counsel clients, educate clients and families, and conduct research to improve nursing practices and outcomes.

1. Functions of Nurse

2. Functions of Nurse
• Care giver
• Clinical and ethical decision maker
• Protector and clinical advocate
• Case manager
• Rehabilitator
• Comforter
• Communicator
• Teacher

3. Care giver
• As a care giver, the nurse helps client to regain
health through healing process
• Nurse addresses the holistic health care needs of
client
• She helps the client and families to set goals and
meet those goals
• She preserves dignity of client
• She accept client as person not merely as
mechanical beings

4. Clinical and ethical instructor
• Nurse uses critical thinking skills throughout
the nursing process to provide effective care
• Nurse makes decision in collaboration with
the client and family
• She also collaborates and consults with other
health professionals

5. Protector
• She provides a safe conductive environment
to the client
• She takes step to prevent injury to client
• She protects the client from every possible
adverse effects of treatment
• She asks about any allergy to medicine or food
• She provides immunization against diseases

6. As advocate
• She protects client’s human and legal rights
and provides assistance in asserting those
rights if the need arises
• She advocate the client by keeping in mind the
client’s religion and culture
• Nurse defends the client’s right in general way
by speaking out against policies that might
endanger their well- being

7. Manager
• As a manager, nurse co-ordinate the activities
of other members of health care team
• She manages the nursing care of not only one
client but also of families and in communities
• She delegates the nursing activities to
auxillary workers and other nurses

8. Communicator
• Effective communication is an essential element of all
profession including nursing
• Nursing involves communication with clients and families,
other nurses, health care professionals, resource person
and the community
• As a communicator, nurse provides information to other
health team members about the planned and unplanned
nursing care
• She conveys information verbally as well as through
documentation
• Nurse communicates verbally at change of shifts
• She reports while shifting the client from one unit to
another

9. Comforter
• As a comforter, nurse provides comfort 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 client by staying
near the patient

10. Leader
• 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 well-being. As a leader,
she influences the client to make decisions
regarding health.

11. Counsellor
• Nurse helps the client to recognize and cope
with stressful, psychological or social
problems
• She assists the client for developing good
interpersonal relationships
• Nurse counsels primary healthy individuals
with normal adjustments difficulties
• Nurse helps the person to develop new
attitude feelings and behaviour

12. Rehabilitator
• Rehabilitation process by which individual’s
returns to maximal levels of functioning after
illness, accident or other events
• Nurse helps the client to adopt as fully as possible
with experiences physical or emotional
impairment that changes their lives
• Rehabilitative and restorative are activities range
from teaching clients to walk with crutches to
help the client cope with lifestyle changes often
associated with chronic illness

13. Teacher/ Educator 7
• She determines that the client fully
understood
• She also evaluates client’s progress in learning
• She also incorporates other resources such as
family in teaching plans
• She gives health education on client’s about
preventive measures of diseases

14. Researcher
• Nurse investigates problems in order to
improve nursing care and expand the scope of
nursing practice.
• She does many qualitative researchers. Based
upon these findings, they practice nursing
care in hospital as well as clinical settings. For
eg, investigating various ways to resolve
client’s pain