functions of a nurse

7/31/2019 Functions of a Nurse

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Helps client to regain health through healing

process

Addresses the holistic health care needs of the

clients

Helps clients and families to set goals and meet

their goals

She preserves dignity of the client

She accepts clients as a person not merely as a

mechanical beings


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Uses critical thinking skills

throughout nursing process

Makes decision in collaboration

with client & family members

Collaborates and consults withother health care team members


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She provides safe and conducive environment to

the clients

She takes steps to prevent injury to the client

Protects clients from every possible adverse

effects of drugs

Asks about any allergy to food and drugs Provides immunization against disease

Protects clients legal and human rights


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She co-ordinates the activities of

other health care team members

Manages the nursing care to clients,

families and to communities

Delegates the nursing care to theauxiliary workers and other nurses


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Communicates with clients, families, other

nurses, health care professionals and other

resource personsProvides information related to health care

Conveys information's through verbal and

through documentsCommunicates information's while shift

change to other nurse


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Provides comfort to the

clients

Motivates the clients to

reach therapeutic goals


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Nursing leadership is defined as a mutual

interpersonal influence through which nurse

helps clients in making decision and achieving the

goals to improve the client well being.


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Helps clients to copewith stressful,psychologic or socialproblems

Assist the client todevelop IPR

Helps to adjust to

difficulty situation Helps to develop new

attitudes, feelings andbehavior


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Rehabilitation is the process by whichindividuals return to maximal levels of

functioning after illness, accident or

other events


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Nurse helps the client to adapt

fully as possible who experiences

physical or emotional impairment

that changes their lives.

Example for Rehabilitativeactivities: Teaching clients to walk

with crutches.


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Teaching refers to the activities by which the

teacher helps the learner to learn.

She determines that the client fully understood

She also evaluates clients in progress in learning

She also incorporates other resources such as

family, in teaching plans

She gives health education on diet, about

preventive measures of disease.


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Nurse Researcher investigates inorder to improve nursing care &

expand the scope of nursing

practice

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