The document discusses the expanded and extended roles of nurses beyond traditional hospital settings. It outlines several non-traditional nursing roles including school nurse, occupational health nurse, home care nurse, hospice nurse, rehabilitation nurse, nurse epidemiologist, military nurse, aerospace nurse, tele nurse, disaster nurse, and forensic nurse. These roles allow nurses to provide care in schools, workplaces, private homes, hospice facilities, during disasters, and in other environments outside of hospitals. The expanded roles represent an enlargement of nursing practice and responsibilities.

1. “Extended and
Expanded Role of
Nurse”
SUBMITTED TO:
Mr. RAVINDRA H.N
VICE PRINCIPAL
SNC
SUBMITTED BY:
CHRISTIE SHELIN
1ST
M.SC NURSING
SNC
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2. TRENDS AND ISSUES
KEEP ON CHANGING
IN THE SOCIETY SO AS
THE ROLE OF NURSE
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3. “It is the responsibility assumed by the
nurse beyond traditional functioning of
the nurse and it is the scope of
nursing outside the hospital.”
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4. 1.School Health Nurse
2.Occupational Health Nurse
3.Private Duty Nurse
4.Home Care Nurse
5.Hospice Nurse
6.Rehabilitation Nurse
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5. 7. Nurse Epidemiologist
8. Military Nurse
9. Aerospace Nurse
10. Tele Nurse
11. Disaster Nursing
12. Forensic Nurse
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7. Functions in School Setup.
Helps in promoting educational success by promoting health
Intervene actual and potential health problems
Provide case management services
Actively collaborate with others to build student and family
capacity for adaptation ,Self-management ,
self-advocacy and learning.
Implementation of school health services.
Collaborates with primary care physicians, specialists and
local public health agencies
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8. Observes and
assess the workers
health with respect to
job.
Have knowledge
about workplace
hazards.
Have knowledge
about toxicology
epidemiology 8

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10. Such care is provided individually and in
one to one ratio.
Mostly in hospital and nursing homes.
Present mainly before intensive care
units were formed.
Also non medical care can be provided
by the nurse.
But cannot provide skilled nursing care
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12. ALSO REFERRED AS DOMICIALLRY CARE
OR SOCIAL CARE
Care provided in patients home.
Licensed individual who assist the individual may be
referred to as “CAREGIVERS”.
Care givers assist the individual in bathing, eating,
cleaning home, preparing meal.
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13. Hospice is a type of care
that focuses on the
palliation of terminally ill
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14. Nurses are in main role to enforce infection control
Practices.
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15. Helps to assist the
individual with disability
or dysfunction to achieve
maximum function.
Focuses on self care that
promotes physical,
psycho social and
spiritual health
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16. Care given to soldiers,
sailors, marines and
airmen.
They are
commissioned as
second lieutenant.
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17. Highly trained
registered nurses that
provide
comprehensive
prehospital,
emergency and critical
care to all type of
patients during aero
medical evacuation or
rescue operations.
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18. Uses
telecommunicatio
n and information
technology in the
provision of
nursing services.
Exists when there
is large physical
distance between
Patient and
nurse.
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20. ‘DISASTER’ alphabetically means:
D - Destructions
I - Incidents
S - Sufferings
A - Administrative, Financial Failures.
S - Sentiments
T - Tragedies
E - Eruption of Communicable diseases.
R - Research programme and its implementation
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23. “Expanded role of nurse means enlargement of
nursing within the boundaries of nursing.
Expanded role of nurse is the responsibility
assumed by the nurse within the field of practice.”
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