A nurse fulfills many roles including caregiver, clinical decision maker, advocate, case manager, rehabilitator, comforter, communicator, teacher, and leader. As a caregiver, the nurse helps clients regain their health through the healing process and preserves their dignity. As a clinical decision maker, the nurse uses critical thinking and collaborates with the healthcare team and clients. The nurse protects clients, asks about allergies, and ensures their legal and human rights are upheld.

1. FUNCTIONS OF A NURSE
Presented By: Sathish Rajamani M. Sc (N)

3. CONTEMPORARY FUNCTIONS
 Care giver
 Clinical and
Ethical decision
maker
 Protector and
clinical advocate
 Case manager
 Rehabilitator
 Comforter
 Communicator
 Teacher

4. CARE GIVER
 Helps client 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

5. CLINICAL & ETHICAL DECISION MAKER

6. CLINICAL & ETHICAL DECISIONMAKER
Uses critical thinking skills
throughout nursing process
Makes decision in collaboration
with client & family members
Collaborates and consults with
other health care team members

7. PROTECTOR & ADVOCATE

8. 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

9. MANAGER

10. NURSE MANAGER
She co-ordinates the 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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14. COMMUNICATOR
 Communicates with clients, 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

15. COMFORTER
 Provides comfort to the
clients
 Motivates the clients to
reach therapeutic goals

16. NURSE AS A LEADER

17. LEADER
 Nursing leadership is defined as a mutual
interpersonal influence through which nurse
helps clients in making decision and achieving the
goals to improve the client well – being.

18. COUNSELLOR
 Helps clients to 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

19. REHABILITATOR

20. Rehabilitation is the process by which
individuals return to maximal levels of
functioning after illness, accident or
other events
REHABILITATION

21. Nurse helps the client 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.

22. TEACHER/EDUCATOR

23. NURSE EDUCATOR
 Teaching refers 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.

24. RESEARCHER

25. Nurse Researcher investigates in
order to improve nursing care &
expand the scope of nursing
practice
NURSE RESEARCHER