Nurses play many important roles in providing health care services. They act as caregivers by helping clients regain their health through the healing process and addressing holistic needs. Nurses are also ethical decision makers who use critical thinking skills and collaborate with clients, families, and other health professionals. Additionally, nurses serve as advocates, protecting clients' rights and safety. They coordinate care as managers and help with rehabilitation as clients work to return to maximal functioning after health events.

1. ROLE OF A NURSE
IN HEALTH CARE
SERVICES
DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR.
maheswarijaikumar2103@gmail.com

2. The contemporary
nurse functions in
the inter related role
as follows

3. CARE GIVER

4. • As a care giver, the nurse helps
client to regain health through
healing process.
• Nurse addresses the holistic
health care needs of the client.

5. • She helps the client & families to
set goals & meets those goals.
• She preserves the dignity of the
client.
• She accepts a client as a person ,
not merely as mechanical beings.

6. ETHICAL DECISION MAKER

7. • The nurse uses critical thinking
skills throughout the nursing
process to provide effective care.

8. • Nurse makes decision in
collaboration with the client &
the family.
• She also collaborates & consults
with other health professionals.

9. CLINICAL ADVOCATE

10. PROTECTOR & ADVOCATE
• A nurse provides a safe
conducive environment to the
client.
• She takes steps to prevent injury
to the clients.

11. CASE MANAGER

12. • She protects the client from
every possible adverse effects of
treatment.
• She asks about any allergy to
medicine or food.
• She provides immunization
against disease.

13. • She protects client’s human &
legal rights & provides assistance
in asserting those rights if the
need arises.

14. • She advocated the client by
keeping in mind the client’s
religion & culture.
• Nurse defends the clients right in
general way by speaking out
against policies that might
endanger their well being.

15. MANAGER
• As a manager, nurse coordinates
the activities of other health
team members.

16. • She manages the nursing care of
not only one client but also of
families & in communities.
• She delegates the nursing
activities to auxiliary workers &
other nurses.

17. REHABILITATOR

18. • Rehabilitation is a process by which
individuals return to maximal levels
of functioning after illness,
accidents or other health events.
• Nurse helps the clients to adapt as
fully possible who experiences
physical or emotional impairment
that change their lives.

19. COMFORTOR

20. • The role of a comforter is a
traditional & historical one in
nursing & has continued to be
important as a nurses have
assumed new roles.

21. • As a comforter, nurse provides
comforts to the client by
considering him as an individual
with unique feelings & needs.

22. • She motivates clients to reach
therapeutic goals.
• She promotes comfort to the
client by staying near the patient

23. COMMUNICATOR

24. • Nursing involves communication
with clients & families, other
nurses, health care team
members, resource persons &
the community

25. • As a communicator, nurse
provides information to other
team members about the palled
& unplanned nursing care.
• She conveys information verbally
at change of shift.

26. • She reports while shifting the
client from one unit to the other.

27. TEACHER

28. • Teaching refers to the activities
by which the teacher helps the
learner to learn a teacher.
• She determines that the client
has fully understood.

29. • She also evaluates client’s progress
in learning.
• She incorporates other resources
such as family ,in teaching plans.
• Nurse gives health education on
diet, about preventive measures of
disease.

30. LEADER

31. • As a leader, she influences the
client to make decisions
regarding health.

32. • Nursing leadership is defined as
a mutual process of
interpersonal influence through
which nurse helps client in
making decisions for establishing
& achieving the goals to
improve the clients well being.

33. COUNSELLOR

34. • Nurse helps the client to
recognize & cope with stressful,
psychological or social problems.
• She assists the clients for
developing good inter personal
relationship.

35. • Nurse counsels primary healthy
individuals with normal
adjustment difficulties.
• Nurse helps the person to
develop new attitudes, feeling &
behavoirs.

36. RESEARCHER

37. • Nurse investigates problems in
order to improve nursing care &
expand the scope of nursing
practice.
• She does many qualitative &
quantitative researches.

38. • Based upon these findings, they
practice nursing care in hospital
as well as in the community
setting.

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