ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE NURSE

Nurse Role Definition

The role is a set of behaviors that are expected by others to the appropriate person in his position, one system. The role is influenced by social conditions both inside and outside and are stable. The role is a form of behavior expected of people in certain social situations. (Kozier Barbara, 1995:21).
Role of the nurse in question is a way to express the activity of nurses in practice, which has completed his formal education in a recognized and authorized by the government to carry out the duties and responsibilities of professional nursing in accordance with professional code of ethics. Where every role is expressed as a separate character for the sake of clarity.

Care giver:
In this role of nurses expected to
1. Provide nursing services to individuals, families, groups or society as a diagnosis of problems that occur starting from the problem that is simple to the complex problem.
2. Taking into account the context of appropriate individuals in the client's life, nurses must consider the needs of the client based on significantly from clients.
Nurses use the nursing process to identify the nursing diagnoses ranging from physical problems to the psychological problems.
Role Element
Doheny's opinion (1982) there are some elements of the role of professional nurses, among others: care giver, client advocate, counselor, educator, Collaborator, coordinator change agent, consultant and interpersonal processes.
Client Advocate (Defenders Clients)
Task nurses:
1. Responsible for helping clients and families in interpreting information from a variety of service delivery and in providing other information necessary to take consent (inform concern) for any act that is given to nursing.
2. Maintaining and protecting the rights of the client, must be done because the client is ill and hospitalized will interact with many health workers. Nurses are members of the health team the longest contact with the client, so expect nurses to be able to defend the rights of clients.
A client advocate is a defender of the rights of clients. Defense improvements including what is best for clients, ensuring client needs are met and to protect the rights of clients (Disparty, 1998: 140).
Clients Rights include:
1. The right to services that best
2. The right to information about illness
3. Right to privacy
4. The right to self-determination
5. The right to receive compensation due to negligence actions.
Rights of Health Workers, among others:
1. The right to correct information
2. The right to work according to standard
3. The right to terminate relationships with clients
4. The right to reject actions that are less suitable
5. Right to privacy
6. Right to remuneration

Counselor
Counseling is the process of helping clients to recognize and cope with psychological stress or social problems to build good interpersonal relationships and to enhance the development of a person. Therein provided emotional and intellectual support.

Role of nurses:
1. Identifying changes in client interaction patterns of ill health conditions.
2. Changes in the pattern of interaction is a "Basic" in planning methods to improve its ability to adapt.
3. Provide counseling or guidance counseling to individuals or families to integrate health experience with past experience.
4. Solving problems in the focus on nursing issues

Educator:
Teaching is to refer to activities where one teacher helped students to learn. Learning is an interactive process between teachers and students one or more particular object of learning where or desire to change behavior is the goal. (Redman, 1998: 8). The essence of behavioral change always comes from new knowledge or technical skills.