Real life examples ; Roles of a nurse

Guest 360983 · Jun 18, 2014

Tell me about what you think of when you read provider. Next, tell me what you think of when you read manager. Seriously, write this down before you go futher.

Now think about what you have seen nurses do in clinicals and what you've learned about nursing. What actions match your provider definition? What actions go with your manager description?

I will defer to others on the profession question.

missmollie, ADN, BSN, RN · Jun 18, 2014

I'm confused by your question. Are you asking what role the nurse is taking when going through ADPIE?

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Jun 19, 2014

Roles and Function of a Nurse

1. Caregiver

The caregiver role has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client’s dignity. Caregiving encompasses the physical, psychosocial, developmental, cultural and spiritual levels.

2. Communicator

Communication is an integral to all nursing roles. Nurses communicate with the client, support persons, other health professionals, and people in the community. In the role of communicator, nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team. The quality of a nurse’s communication is an important factor in nursing care.

3. Teacher

As a teacher, the nurse helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health. The nurse assesses the client’s learning needs and readiness to learn, sets specific learning goals in conjunction with the client, enacts teaching strategies and measures learning.

4. Client advocate

Client advocate acts to protect the client. In this role the nurse may represent the client’s needs and wishes to other health professionals, such as relaying the client’s wishes for information to the physician. They also assist clients in exercising their rights and help them speak up for themselves.

5. Counselor

Counseling is a process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to developed improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth. It involves providing emotional, intellectual, and psychologic support.

6. Change agent

The nurse acts as a change agent when assisting others, that is, clients, to make modifications in their own behavior. Nurses also often act to make changes in a system such as clinical care, if it is not helping a client return to health.

7. Leader

A leader influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal. The leader role can be employed at different levels; individual client, family, groups of clients, colleagues, or the community. Effective leadership is 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.

8. Manager

The nurse manages the nursing care of individuals, families, and communities. The nurse-manager also delegates nursing activities to ancillary workers and other nurses, and supervises and evaluates their performance.

9. Case manager

Nurse case managers work with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and to monitor outcomes.

10. Research consumer – nurses often use research to improve client care. In a clinical area nurses need to:

Have some awareness of the process and language of research
Be sensitive to issues related to protecting the rights of human subjects
Participate in identification of significant researchable problems
Be a discriminating consumer of research findings

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/roles-and-functions-of-the-nurse.html#lesson

unknowngenius10 · Jun 19, 2014

Tell me about what you think of when you read provider. Next, tell me what you think of when you read manager. Seriously, write this down before you go futher.
Now think about what you have seen nurses do in clinicals and what you've learned about nursing. What actions match your provider definition? What actions go with your manager description?
I will defer to others on the profession question.

When I think of "provider," I think of a nurse cleaning a patient's wounds.

When I think of "manager," I think of the nurse trhinking how to best clean these wounds.

I have never seen nurses do anything in clinicals b.c I'm a prenursing student. This is why I'm having such a hard time picturing this.

By the way, these are the definitions of these words from my school's nursing handbook.

1. Provider of Care: practicing competently and safely in a variety of health care settings

with clients of diverse socio-cultural identities across the life span. It includes cognitive,

psychomotor and affective abilities which are based in knowledge of health; acute and

chronic health deviations; nutrition; pharmacology; communication; human development;

teaching-learning principles; current technology; humanities; and biological, social, and

behavioral sciences. As provider of care, the associate degree graduate utilizes the

nursing process as a basis for decisions. These decisions are characterized by critical

thinking, clinical competence, accountability, and a commitment to the value of caring.

2. Manager of Care: planning and coordinating care for an individual or group of clients

with health care needs. It includes the knowledge and skills necessary to make

decisions regarding priorities of care, to delegate some aspects of nursing care and

direct others to efficiently use time and resources, and to know when to seek

assistance. Supporting the knowledge is an understanding of the principles of

client-care management, communication and delegation, legal parameters of nursing

practice, and roles and responsibilities of the health care team.

3. Member Within the Profession of Nursing: actively participating within the profession. It

includes understanding ethical standards and the legal framework for practice, the

importance of nursing research; rules and regulations governing the practice of nursing;

roles of the professional organizations, political, economic, and societal forces affecting

practice and lines of authority and communication within the work setting. As a member

within the profession of nursing, the associate degree graduate has a commitment to

professional growth, continuous learning and self-development.

unknowngenius10 · Jun 19, 2014

I'm confused by your question. Are you asking what role the nurse is taking when going through ADPIE?

Well, basically, we have definitions of "roles of a nurse" and I can't understand what they mean or how they apply in real life.

For instance, these are the definitions of "roles of a nurse" according to out school's nursing handbook.