Professional Roles of Nurses and Scope of Theories and Analysis Flashcards
provides care and comfort for person together with preserving the dignity of human being
care provider
facilitates understanding and collaboration of nursing actions with their clients and other members of health care teams and is essential for all nursing roles and activities
communicator
help the client learn the state of their well being and the therapies that will be done to alleviate their conditions and provide them imagery of the advantages and disadvantages of the actions that will be done to them
educator
helps client to cope with stress brought about by their health conditions
counselor
the process of influencing helps the client in making decisions to establish and achieve their goals toward alleviating their condition
leader
nurse is a person who brings out a change
change agent
nurses establish an environment for collaborative client centered care to provide safe, quality care with positive client outcomes
manager
investigative role of a nurse which further improves the nursing practice
researcher
have mastery in certain practice of nursing
nurse generalist
an example of this role is special areas nurses
nurse generalist
performs direct nursing action in specialty areas
may or may not have educational preparations
nurse clinician
requires advance educational or nursing practice and must be ceretified by governing bodies that they may practice
nurse practitioner
master’s degree is required
must have a specialization in particular field of nursing
nurse specialist
refers to the qualified level of precision of a certain theory and the accuracy of its concepts and propositions
scope
what are the nursing theories under scope?
grand theory
middle-ranged theory
practice level theory
descriptive and prescriptive theory
