The nurse supports the client by attitudes and actions that show concern for client welfare and acceptance of the client as a person. The nurse is primarily comcerned with the client’s needs.
- Includes activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client’s dignity
- Caregiving is holistic, it encompasses the physical, psychosocial, developmental, cultural and spiritual level.
- Required nursing actions may require:
- Full care for the completely dependent client
- Partial care for the partially dependent client
- Supportive-educative care to assist clients in attaining their highest possible level of health and wellness
2. Communicator/Helper
The nurse communicates with clients, support persons and colleagues to facilitate all nursing actions.
- Nurse identifies client problems and then communicates these verbally or in writing to other members of the health care team
- The quality of a nurse’s communication is an important factor in nursing care.
- The nurse must be able to communicate clearly and accurately in order for a client’s health care needs to be met.
The nurse provides health teachings to effect behaviour change, which focuses on acquiring new knowledge or technical skills. This role gives emphasis on health promotion and health maintenance.
4. Counselor
The nurse helps the client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop and improved personal relationships and to promote personal growth. This role includes providing emotional, intellectual and psychologic support.
5. Client Advocate
The nurse promotes what is best for the client, ensures that the client’s needs are met, and protects the client’s rights.
6. Change Agent
The nurse initiates changes and assists the client make modifications in the lifestyle to promote health. This role involves identifying the problem, assessing the client’s motivations and capacities for change, determining alternatives, exploring the possible outcomes of the alternatives, assessing resources, determining appropriate helping roles, establishing and maintaining a helping relationship, recognizing phases of the change process, and guiding the clients through these phases.
7. Leader
The nurse through the process of interpersonal influence helps the client make decisions in establishing and achieving goals to improve his well-being.
8. Manager
The nurse plans, gives directions, develop staff, monitor operations, give rewards fairly, and represent both staff members and administration as needed. The nurse manages the nursing care of individuals, groups, families and communities. The nurse manager delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses and supervises and evaluates their performance.
9. Researcher
The nurse participates in scientific investigation and uses research findings in practice. The nurse helps develop knowledge about health and the promotion of health over the full life span; care of persons with health problems and disabilities; and nursing actions to enhance people’s ability to respond effectively to actual or potential health problems.
10. Collaborator
The nurse works in a combined effort with all those involved in care delivery, for a mutually acceptable plan to be .within the health team
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