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    The roles and responsibilities of a nurse include: 1) Being a caregiver who provides direct care, comfort, and sensitivity to clients' needs and perspectives. 2) Serving as a teacher who provides health information to help clients learn and acquire new skills. 3) Acting as a counselor who helps clients cope with problems, improve relationships, and promote personal growth through emotional and psychological support.

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    The roles and responsibilities of a nurse include: 1) Being a caregiver who provides direct care, comfort, and sensitivity to clients' needs and perspectives. 2) Serving as a teacher who provides health information to help clients learn and acquire new skills. 3) Acting as a counselor who helps clients cope with problems, improve relationships, and promote personal growth through emotional and psychological support.

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    The roles and responsibilities of a nurse include: 1) Being a caregiver who provides direct care, comfort, and sensitivity to clients' needs and perspectives. 2) Serving as a teacher who provides health information to help clients learn and acquire new skills. 3) Acting as a counselor who helps clients cope with problems, improve relationships, and promote personal growth through emotional and psychological support.

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    Roles & Responsibilities of a Nurse

    1. Caregiver/ Care provider – the traditional and most essential role

    • functions as nurturer, comforter, provider


    • “mothering actions” of the nurse
    • provides direct care and promotes comfort of client
    • activities involves knowledge and sensitivity to what matters and what
    is important to clients
    • shows concern for client welfare and acceptance of the client as a
    person

    2. Teacher – provides information and helps the client to learn or acquire


    new knowledge and technical skills

    • encourages compliance with prescribed therapy.


    • promotes healthy lifestyle
    • interprets information to the client

    3. Counselor- helps client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or


    social problems; to develop an improve interpersonal relationships and to
    promote personal growth

    • provides emotional, intellectual to and psychologic support


    • focuses on helping a client to develop new attitudes, feelings and
    behaviors rather than promoting intellectual growth.
    • encourages the client to look at alternative behaviors recognize the
    choices and develop a sense of control.

    4. Change agent- initiate changes or assist clients to make modifications in


    themselves or in the system of care.

    5. Client advocate- involves concern for and actions in behalf of the client to
    bring about a change.

    • promotes what is best for the client, ensuring that the client’s needs
    are met and protecting the client’s right.
    • provides explanation in clients language and support clients decisions.

    6. Manager – makes decisions, coordinates activities of others, allocate


    resources, evaluate care and personnel

    • plans, give direction, develop staff, monitors operations, give the


    rewards fairly and represents both staff and administrations as needed
    .
    7. Researcher – participates in identifying significant researchable problems

    • participates in scientific investigation and must be a consumer of


    research findings
    • must be aware of the research process, language of research, a
    sensitive to issues related to protecting the rights of human subjects.

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