UNIT-II

ROLE OF THE NURSE IN HEALTH

CARE

By:
FARZANA
Nursing Instructor
 OBJECTIVES :
• Role of the Nurse in Health Care
• Professional
• Characteristics of a Profession
• Role of the Professional nurse
• Description of Career roles
• Extended role of nurse

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 ROLE OF NURSE

A nurse is a caregiver for patients and helps to

manage physical needs, prevent illness, and
treat health conditions. ... They are responsible
for the holistic care of patients, which
encompasses the psychosocial, developmental,
cultural, and spiritual needs of the individual,

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JOB DESCRIPTION:
• job description is an internal document that
specifies the job requirements, job duties, job
responsibilities, and skills required to perform a
role.
NURSING JOB DESCRIPTION:
• According to PNC Registered Nurse (RN)
primarily cares for patients by monitoring them,
administering medications, consulting with
health care providers, updating patient records
and educating patients and their patients'
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families on disease and post-hospital treatment.
PROFESSION:
• Profession defined as an occupation that
requires extensive education or calling that
requires special knowledge, skill, and
preparation.
PROFESSIONALISM:
• Professionalism involves the application of
knowledge and skills, high standards of practice,
leadership, self regulation, professional
commitment, social values and self directed
activity.
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- Muller (1998)
 PROFESSIONALIZATION:
• Is the process of becoming professional, that
is, of acquiring characteristics considered to be
professional.
CRITERIA OF PROFESSION:
Specialized education
Body of knowledge
Service Orientation
 Ongoing Research
 Code of Ethics
 OCCUPATION
• Occupation is an activity undertaken by the
person to earn his livelihood. It can be business,
profession or employment that a person
undertakes to make money. Many think that
occupation and profession are synonyms, but the
fact is they are different.
• An occupation does not necessarily require
specialized schooling in a particular stream.
Physical or mental both kinds of jobs are 7
included in an occupation..
 NURSING AS A PROFESSION
• Nursing is a profession within the health care
sector focused on the care of individuals,
families, and communities so they may attain,
maintain, or recover optimal health and quality
of life.
• Nurses practice in many specialties with
differing levels of prescription authority.

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 NURSING
PROFESSIONALISM
• Nursing professionalism is an inevitable,
complex, different, and dynamic process. In
this study, the importance, scope, and concept
of professionalism in nursing, the concept of a
beginning for further research and
development, and expanding the nursing
knowledge are explained and clarified.

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 CHARACTERISTICS OF NURSING
PROFESSION
Following are the Characteristics of the nursing
profession :
1.Strong commitment,
2.long-term and regular education,
3.Special body of knowledge and skills,
4.Ethics, autonomy, power for standard service,
5.Valuing and existence of professional
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ROLE OF NURSE
ROLE OF NURSE

• Advocator • Decision maker

• Care giver • Leader
• Comforter • Manager
• Communicator • Rehabilitator
• Collaborator • Researcher
• Counselor • Teacher

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 ADVOCATE
• Advocator refers that the nurse is
responsible to defend on behalf the
patient, family and community.
• She protects client’s human &
legal rights & provides assistance
in asserting those rights if the need
arises.
• • Nurse defends the clients right
in general way by speaking out
against policies that might
endanger their well being.
 CARE GIVER
As a care giver, the nurse helps
client to regain health through
healing process.
• Nurse addresses the holistic
health care needs of the client
• 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.
COMFORTOR:

•As a comforter, nurse

provides comforts to the
client by
•considering him as an
individual with unique
feelings & needs.
•She promotes comfort to
the client by staying near
the patient
COMMUNICATOR:
• Nursing involves
communication with clients
& families, other nurses,
health care team members,
resource persons & the
community.
• She reports while shifting
the client from one unit to
the other.
 COLLABORATOR:

• Nurse helps the person to

develop new attitudes,
feeling & behaviors. Nurses
effectively work within a
healthcare team to achieve
optimal patient care.
 COUNSELLOR

• Nurse helps the client to

recognize & cope with
stressful, psychological
or social problems.
• She assists the clients
for developing good inter
personal relationship.
DECISION MAKER
• The nurse uses critical
thinking skills throughout the
nursing process to provide
effective care.
• Nurse makes decision in
collaboration with the client
& the family.
• She also collaborates &
consults with other health
professionals.
 LEADER:
•As a leader, she influences
the client to make decisions
regarding health.
•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.
 MANAGER
•As a manager, nurse
coordinates the activities of
other health team members.
•He/she manages the nursing
care of not only one client
but also of families & in
communities.
•He/she delegates the
nursing activities to
auxiliary workers & other
nurses.
 REHABILITATOR

• 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
TEACHER
•As a teacher, the nurse
helps clients learn about
their health care
procedures they need to
perform to restore or
maintain their health.
• Nurse gives health
education on diet, about
preventive measures of
disease.
 RESEARCHER:
• Nurse investigates problems
in order to improve nursing
care & expand the scope of
nursing practice.
• She does many qualitative
& quantitative researches.
• Based upon these findings,
they practice nursing care in
hospital as well as in the
community setting.
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