Functions of a nurse

Functions of a nurse

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  FUNCTIONS OF ANURSE Presented By: Sathish Rajamani M. Sc (N)
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  CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONS  Caregiver  Clinical and Ethical decision maker  Protector and clinical advocate  Case manager  Rehabilitator  Comforter  Communicator  Teacher
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  CARE GIVER  Helpsclient 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
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  CLINICAL & ETHICALDECISION MAKER
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  CLINICAL & ETHICALDECISIONMAKER Uses critical thinking skills throughout nursing process Makes decision in collaboration with client & family members Collaborates and consults with other health care team members
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  PROTECTOR & ADVOCATE
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  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
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  MANAGER
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  NURSE MANAGER She co-ordinatesthe 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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  GUESS
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  COMMUNICATOR  Communicates withclients, 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
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  COMFORTER  Provides comfortto the clients  Motivates the clients to reach therapeutic goals
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  NURSE AS ALEADER
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  LEADER  Nursing leadershipis defined as a mutual interpersonal influence through which nurse helps clients in making decision and achieving the goals to improve the client well – being.
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  COUNSELLOR  Helps clientsto 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
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  REHABILITATOR
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  Rehabilitation is theprocess by which individuals return to maximal levels of functioning after illness, accident or other events REHABILITATION
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  Nurse helps theclient 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.
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  TEACHER/EDUCATOR
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  NURSE EDUCATOR  Teachingrefers 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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  RESEARCHER
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  Nurse Researcher investigatesin order to improve nursing care & expand the scope of nursing practice NURSE RESEARCHER