The document outlines the various roles and responsibilities of a nurse in providing care to patients. It discusses how nurses should physically and psychologically assist patients, provide emotional support, act as advocates, protect patient rights, help patients cope with problems, and promote health and comfort. Nurses also have responsibilities as leaders, educators, researchers, and administrators in coordinating care, developing staff, monitoring operations, and allocating resources. Key qualities of a good nurse include being self-confident, humble, honest, loyal, cooperative, a good listener and observer, and having good judgment.

1. By Josy Jomon
M.Sc Nursing Pediatrics
Vice- principal, Meerut Nursing College.

2. 1. CARE GIVER :_ ASSIST PATIENT
PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY.
 PROVIDE DIRECT CARE AND SHOW
CONCERN FOR PATIENT WELFARE AND
ACCEPTANCE OF THE PATEINT AS A
PERSON

3.  Helps patient to recognize and cope
with stressful psychological or social
problem, to develop and improve
interpersonal relationships, and to
promote personal growth.
 Provides emotional, intellectual and
psychological support

4.  As a advocate of the patient and family,
makes a clinical and ethical decisions for
the ultimate benefit of the patient and
family.
 Nurse acts on behalf of the patient and
secures patient’s health care rights and
stand up for them.

5.  Protect the patient’s rights.
 It involves concern for actions
on behalf of the patient to
bring about a change.

6.  Initiate changes or assists
patients to make modification in
themselves or in the system of
care.

7.  Makes decisions ,coordinates
activities of others. And allocate
resources.
 Plans, gives direction, develop staff ,
monitor operations, give rewards
fairly, and represents both staff
administrations as needed.

8.  Plays an important role in
restoration of health of the patient.
 The nurse works with patient to
regain the health status as close as
possible to the premorbidity state.

9.  Helps in promoting the
comfort of patient and family
during the period of care.

10.  Support the patient through health
care team and support people in
community.

11.  Provides information and helps the
patient to learn or acquire new
knowledge and technical skills.
 Explain information to the patient.

12.  As a leader, coordinates the activities of
members of the nursing staff in
delivering nursing care, and has
personnel policy and budgetary
responsibilities for a specific nursing unit
or agency.

13.  Participates in identifying
significant researchable
problems and scientific
investigations.

14.  To be a good nurse, a person should be…
1. self – confident
2. Humble and honest
3. Loyal
4. Cooperative
5. Good listener
6. Keen observer
7. Good administrator

15.  8. Good superviser
 9. Impartial
 10. Capable
 11. Good workman
 12. Responsible
 13. Accountable
 14.Competent
 15. Goodly judgmental person.
 16. Adovocate

16.  1. Potter AP. Perry GA. Stockert AP. Hall MA.
Potter& Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing.
South asian edition.
Elsivierpublishers:(2013);43-44