Roles and Functions of the

Nurse

Submitted by: Corpuz, Rochelle H.

BSN-II-1

NCM-100 (Lecture)

1. Caregiver
  the traditional and most essential role
 functions as nurturer, comforter, provider
 “mothering actions” of the nurse
 provides direct care and promotes comfort of client
 activities involves knowledge and sensitivity to what matters and what
is important to clients
 show concern for client welfare and acceptance of the client as a person

2. Communicator

 is integral to all nursing roles

 communicate with the client, support persons, other health
professionals, and people in the community
 identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in
writing to other members of the health team

3. Teacher

 provides information and helps the client to learn or acquire new

knowledge and technical skills
 encourages compliance with prescribed therapy.
 promotes healthy lifestyles
 interprets information to the client

4. Client Advocate

 involves concern for and actions in behalf of the client to bring about a
change.
 promotes what is best for the client, ensuring that the client’s needs are
met and protecting the client’s right.
 provides explanation in clients language and support clients decisions.

5. Counselor
  helps client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social
problems; to develop an improve interpersonal relationships and to
promote personal growth
 provides emotional, intellectual to and psychologic support
 focuses on helping a client to develop new attitudes, feelings and
behaviors rather than promoting intellectual growth.
 encourages the client to look at alternative behaviors recognize the
choices and develop a sense of control.

6. Change Agent

 initiate changes or assist clients to make modifications in themselves or

in the system of care.

7. Leader

 influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal

 employed at different levels; individual client, family, groups of clients,
colleagues, or the community

8. Manager

 makes decisions, coordinates activities of others, allocate resource

 evaluate care and personnel
 plans, give direction, develop staff, monitors operations, give the
rewards fairly and represents both staff and administrations as needed.

9. Case Manager

 work with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure

effectiveness of the case management plan and to monitor outcomes
10. Research Consumer

 have some awareness of the process and language of research

 be sensitive to issues related to protecting the rights of human subjects
 participate in the identification of significant researchable problems
 be discriminating consumer of research findings

11. Expended Career Roles

 nurses are fulfilling expanded career roles, such as those of nurse

practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwife, nurse educator,
nurse researcher, and nurse anesthetist, all of which allow greater
independence and autonomy