roles of the nurse

• Caregiver role has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client’s dignity.
• Communication is integral to all nursing roles.
• role of communicator, nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the healthcare team.
• Teacher, the nurse helps clients learn about their health and the healthcare procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health
• client advocate acts to protect the client. In this role nurse may represent the clients need and wishes
• Counseling is the process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems,
• nurse acts as a change agent when assisting clients to make modifications in their behavior.
• leader influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal.
• nurse manager also assigns and delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses, and supervises and evaluates their performance.
• Nurse case managers work with the multidisciplinary healthealthcarehcare team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and to monitor outcomes. Each agency or unit specifies the role of the nurse case manager.
• APRNs are RNs who have advanced practice training and have completed a master’s or higher education degree and certification in their specialty of advanced practice roles.
• APRN roles include:certified nurse practitioner (CNP), certified nurse midwife (CNM), certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA), and clinical nurse specialist (CNS). Other expanded roles include nurse educator, nurse researcher, and informatics nurse specialist (INS).
• Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP) CNPs provide care, independently, in a range of settings and in one of six defined client populations
• CNSs usually work in a specialized area of nursing practice defined by parameters such as disease or medical specialty
• CRNAs administer anesthesia for surgical and other procedures and provide pre- and postanesthesia care f
• CNMs provide primary healthcare for women from adolescence throughout the lifespan.