UNIT # II

ROLES OF THE NURSE

IN HEALTH CARE

By Nasreen Bibi
Generic-BSN Year I, Semester I
Jinnah College of Nursing( Sohail
University)
Date: 9th Jan,2024

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 Outlines

• Profession
• Characteristics of a Profession
• Role of the Professional nurse
• Description of Career roles
• Description of role as Communicator
• Description of role as a Teacher
• Description of role as Counselor

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 Profession
• A profession is any job where you need specialized knowledge,
registration, authority and training.
• Characteristics of a Profession
Professional education.
Is basically intellectual.
Improves its techniques by the use of scientific method.
Functions autonomously.
Body of knowledge.
Service.

Autonomy.

Code of ethics.
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 Nursing Profession
• Nursingas integral part of the health care system, encompasses
the promotion of health, prevention of illness and care of
physically ill and disabled people of all ages, in all health care
and community settings.

• Nursing combines science and technology with people skills

like: communication, problem solving, decision making,
teaching, and compassion.

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 Nurse
• TheNurse is a person who has completed a program of basic
generalized nursing education and authorized by appropriate
regulatory authority to practice nursing in the health care setting.
• The nurse is prepared and authorized to:
Care for individual, family and community.
Engage in the general scope of nursing practice.
Carry out health care teaching.
Participate as a member health care team.
Supervise and train nurses and health care auxiliaries.
Involve in research.
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 Registered Nurse (RN)
• Registered Nurse are professionals who has completed a
program of basic generalized nursing education and licensed
by the state in which they work.
• Registered Nurse function as active members of the health
care team.
• Registered Nurse provide and manage care for individuals
who are ill and their families.
• Registered Nurse also work with healthy individuals and
families to educate them about wellness and disease
prevention.
• RegisteredNurse work with patients of all ages promoting
physical, mental and social well-being.
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 Function of Nurse
• Caring for individuals, sick or well.
• Assess the responses to health status.
• Assistindividuals in the performance of activities contributing
to health or recovery.
• Maintains accurate records.
• Identify
the personal needs of and the role of nurse in meeting
these goals.
• Establishing the standards for the hospital management.
• Share with other health team the planning, implementation and
evaluation to ensure the adequacy of the health system for
promoting health, preventing illness, and caring for ill and
disabled
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 Responsibilities of Nurse
• Perform physical exams and take health histories.
• Provide a care for health promotion, counseling and education.
• Administermedications, wound care, and numerous other
personalized interventions.
• Interpret
patient information and make critical decisions about
needed actions.
• Coordinate care, in collaboration with a wide array of
healthcare professionals.
• Directand supervise care delivered by other healthcare
professionals.
• Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient
outcomes.
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 Where Do Nurses Work

The possibilities are endless and nurses works in various settings:

• Hospitals • Non Governmental
• Clinics/Offices Organization (NGO)
• Airplanes, Helicopters
• Nursing Homes and and Cruise Ships
Hospice • Public Health Offices
• Schools • Home Health Care
• Communities Agencies
• Military
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 Carrier Role of The Nurse
• Clinical Specialists Nurse
Is a nurse along with nursing education who has completed a
master’s degree in specialty and has considerable clinical
expertise in that specialty. She provides expert care to
individuals participates in educating health care professionals,
acts as a clinical consultant, counseling and participates in
research.
• Nurse Practitioner
Is a nurse who has completed either as certificate program or a
master’s degree of nursing in a specialty and is also certified by
the appropriate specialty organization. She is skilled at making
nursing assessments, performing physical examination,
counseling,
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teaching and treating minor and self limiting illness.
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• Nurse-midwife

A nurse who has completed a program in nursing midwifery and

provides prenatal, natal and postnatal care and delivers babies to
woman with uncomplicated pregnancies.
• Nurse anesthetist
A nurse who completed the course of study in nursing and
specialization in nurse anesthesia and carries out pre-operative
status of clients and manage the anesthetic clients.
• Nurse Educator
A nurse usually with advanced degree, who teaches in clinical or
educational settings, teaches theoretical knowledge, clinical skills
and conduct research.
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• Staff Nurse
• A nurse who has completed a program in nursing education and
have a license or authority to work in a hospitals settings.
• Nurse Entrepreneur
A nurse along with a nursing education who has an advanced
degree like MBA and manages health related business.
• Nurse Administrator

A nurse along with a nursing education and having

administrating degree and who functions at various levels of
management in health settings; responsible for the management
and administration of resources and personnel involved in giving
patient care.

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 Role of The Professional Nurse

Nurses assume a number of roles when they provide care to clients.

The roles required at specific time depend on the needs of the client
and aspects of the particular environment. Following are some
professional roles of nurse:

• Communicator • Manager

• Teacher • Research consumer

• Counselor • Decision Maker
• Caregiver • Leader

• Client advocate
• Change agent
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 Communicator
• Communication is an integral to all nursing roles. Nurses
communicate with the client, support persons, other health
professionals, and people in the community. In the role of
communicator, nurses identify client problems and then
communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the
health team. The quality of a nurse’s communication is an important
factor in nursing care.

• It
is nurse role to use of effective interpersonal and therapeutic
communication skills to establish and maintain helping relationships
with patients of all ages in a wide variety of healthcare settings.
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 Teacher
• Asa teacher, the nurse helps clients learn about their health and the
health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain
their health.
• As a teacher the nurse assesses the client’s learning needs and
readiness to learn, sets specific learning goals in conjunction with the
client, enacts teaching strategies and measures learning.
• Asa teacher nurse should educates clients about diseases,
prevention, nutrition and healthy behaviors is essential. Nurses must
explain treatments and procedures, answer any questions clients
have. Education is involved in all nursing activities.
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 Counselor

• Counseling is a process of helping a client to recognize and cope with

stressful psychological or social problems, to developed improved
interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth. It
involves providing emotional, intellectual, and psychological support.

• As a counselor the nurse must use of therapeutic interpersonal

communication skills to provide information, make appropriate
referrals, and facilitate the patient's problem solving and decision
making skills.

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 Caregiver

• Nurses view each client as unique and consider the ''whole'' person in
the caring process. Nurses address not only physiologic concerns but
also spiritual, emotional, and social needs. The role of caregiver is the
primary role of the nurse.

• The caregiver role of nurse role has traditionally included those

activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while
preserving the client’s dignity. Care giving encompasses the physical,
psychosocial, developmental, cultural and spiritual levels.

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• Client Advocate

Nurse as client advocate acts to protect the client. In this role the
nurse may represent the client’s needs and wishes to other health
professionals, such as relaying the client’s wishes for information to
the physician. They also assist clients in exercising their rights and
help them speak up for themselves.

• Change Agent

The nurse acts as a change agent when assisting others, that is,
clients, to make modifications in their own behavior. Nurses also
often act to make changes in a system such as clinical care, if it is
not helping a client return to health.

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 Leader
• As a leader nurses influences others to work together to
accomplish a specific goal. The nurse leader role can be employed
at different levels; individual client, family, groups of clients,
colleagues, or the community.

• Effective nursing leadership is a learned process requiring an

understanding of the needs and goals that motivate people, the
knowledge to apply the leadership skills and the interpersonal
skills to influence others.

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 Manager
• Asa manager the nurse manages the nursing care of individuals,
families, and communities. The nurse manager also delegates
nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses and
supervises and evaluates their performance.

• Nursecase managers work with the multidisciplinary health care

team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and
to monitor outcomes.

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 Research Consumer
• The
nurse must participate in or conduct of research to increase
knowledge in nursing and improve patient care.
• Nursesoften use research to improve client care. In a clinical area
nurses need to:
• Have some awareness of the process and language of research
• Be sensitive to issues related to protecting the rights of human subjects
• Participate in identification of significant researchable problems
• Be a discriminating consumer of research findings

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 Decision Maker

• Nurse is also a decision maker because Problem resolution requires

the ability to make sound judgments and decision. Nurses must
choose the best approaches to client care, help clients participate in
this decision making and use safe and effective judgments when
providing care, also involving other members of the health care
team and the families of clients in decision making to ensure that
sound choices are made.

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 References
• Erb, G. K., B. (2021). Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts,
Process and Practice (11th ed.) Addison: Wesley.
• Barratt, C. (2018). Developing resilience: the role of nurses,
healthcare teams and organizations. Nursing
Standard, 33(7), 43-49.
• Retrieved from:

• https://www.news-medical.net/health/Roles-of-a-Nurse.aspx
• https://www.bolton.ac.uk/blogs/the-role-of-nurses-in-
healthcare
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 Thank
You
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