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Nurses provide care and comfort for persons together with preserving the dignity of human being. As caregivers, nurses are expected to help clients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing process.
Considered as the mother role of nurses
Care Provider (Caregiver)
Facilitates understanding of nursing actions with their clients and other members of the health care team and is essential for all nursing roles and activities.
Develops rapport with the client which establishes their cooperation.
Communicator
Help learn state of well-being and therapies to be done to alleviate conditions and provide imagery of the advantages and disadvantages of actions to be done.
Teaching roles can help in development of nursing profession especially in education.
Educator
Help clients cope with stress brought about by health conditions.
Facilitate client growth in all aspects: physical, emotional, psychological and even spiritua
Counselor
Influence clients in making decisions to establish and achieve their goals toward alleviating their conditions.
Leader
Works with clients to address their health concerns and staff members to address organizational and community concerns.
Change agent must model appropriate behavior in an atmosphere of trust and openness, accept responsibility in getting data in an appropriate manner, provide skills and expertise and link needed resources in ways that make the intervention effective (Hood, 2014).
Change Agent
Establishes an environment for collaborative client-centered care to provide care with positive client outcome.
As managers, nurses coordinate the activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and have personnel policy and budgetary responsibility to a specific nursing unit/dept.
Manager
Investigative role to further improve nursing practice.
Research studies substantiate practices as they were tested and further studied upon.
Researcher
Have mastery in certain practice of nursing. Example of special areas: general nursing practice, medical-surgical nursing, pediatric and geriatric nursing, college health nursing, psychiatric and mental health nursing, nursing continuing education and staff development and home health nursing.
. Nurse Generalist
Perform direct nursing actions in specialty areas. They may or may have advanced educational preparation as long as they are certified by a governing body to perform such duties.
Nurse Clinician
Requires advanced educational or nursing practice and must be certified by a governing body. Provides care with clients with complex problems and this is a more holistic approach than that of physicians.
. Nurse Practitioner
Requires master’s degree in nursing and must have specialization in a particular field in nursing. The specialty may be identified by a population, a setting, a disease specialty, a type of care or problem.
Nurse Specialist
