ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES OF A PROFESSIONAL NURSE Flashcards
Provide direct care and comfort of client
Holistic approach; accept the client as a person
Maintain and regain health; manages symptoms
Caregiver/ Care Provider
For the completely dependent client
Full Care
For the partially dependent client
Partial Care
To assist clients in attaining their possible level of health and wellness
Supportive- educative care
Involves concern for and actions in behalf of the client to bring about a change
Client Advocate
Promotes what is best for the client, ensuring that the client’s needs are met and protecting the client’s right.
Client Advocate
Provides explanation in client’s language and support clients decisions.
Client Advocate
Protect your patient’s human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights if the need
arises
Client Advocate
The nurse helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health.
Teacher
Assesses the client’s learning needs and readiness to learn.
Teacher
Encourages compliance with prescribed therapy.
Promotes healthy lifestyle
Interprets information to the client
Teacher
Some of your teaching is unplanned and informal
o Explain concepts about health; explain the
procedure to the patient; gives information to the
patient
o Give information with the learning needs of your
patient, capacity of the patient, and their readiness to learn
o Goal of a teacher is to have intellectual growth
Teacher
Helps client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems; to develop an improve
interpersonal relationships and to promote personal growth
Counselor
Provides emotional, intellectual to and psychologic support
Counselor
Focuses on helping a client to develop new attitudes, feelings and behaviors rather than promoting intellectual growth.
Counselor
Encourages the client to look at alternative behaviors recognize the choices and develop a sense of control.
Counselor
Give your own opinion or idea
Advisor
Initiate changes or assist clients to make modifications in themselves or in the system of care
Change agent
Combination of client advocate, caregiver, and change agent
Change Agent
Makes decisions, coordinates activities of others, allocate
resources, evaluate care and personnel
Manager
Plans, give direction, develop staff, monitors operations, give the rewards fairly and represents both staff and administrations as needed
Manager
Coordinate with other healthcare staff
Manager
Influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal.
Leader
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.
Leader
Improvement of the well-being of the patient
Influences the behavior of the patient
Leader
Nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the
health care team.
Communicator
The nurse must be able to communicate clearly and
accurately in order for a client’s health care needs to be
met.
Communicator
Work with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure
the effectiveness of the case management plan and to
monitor outcomes.
Case Manager
Works with primary or staff nurses to oversee the care
of a specific caseload.
In other agencies, the primary nurse or provides some level
of direct care to the client and family.
Case Manager
Participates in identifying significant researchable problems
Researcher
Participates in scientific investigation and must be a consumer of research findings
Researcher
Must be aware of the research process, language of research, a sensitive to issues related to protecting the rights of human subjects
Researcher
Is a nurse who has completed either as certificate program or a master’s degree in a specialty and is also certified by the appropriate specialty organization
Nurse practitioner
Is skilled at making nursing assessments, performing P.E., counseling, teaching and treating minor and self-limiting illness
Nurse practitioner
A nurse usually with advanced degree, who teaches in clinical or educational settings, teaches theoretical knowledge, clinical skills and conduct research
Nurse educator
Nurse who has completed a program in midwifery
Provides prenatal and postnatal care and delivers babies to woman with uncomplicated pregnancies
Nurse-midwife
Nurse who has an advanced degree, and manages health-related business
Nurse entrepreneur
Is a nurse who has completed a master’s degree in specialty and has considerable clinical expertise in that specialty
Clinical Specialists
She provides expert care to individuals, participates in educating health care professionals and ancillary, acts as a clinical consultant and participates in research
Clinical Specialists
A nurse who completed the course of study in an anesthesia school and carries out pre-operative status of clients
Nurse anesthetist
A nurse who functions at various levels of management in health settings
Nurse administrator
Responsible for the management and administration of resources and personnel involved in giving patient care
Nurse administrator
Provides specialized care for individuals who are victims and or/perpetrators of trauma
Forensic nurse
They have knowledge on the legal system and skills in injury identification, evaluation, and documentation
Forensic nurse
Collects evidence, provides medical testimony in court, consults with legal authorities
Forensic nurse
