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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.

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