Official Role of Nurses in a Clinical Setting

Nurses play a very crucial role within the clinical settings in fostering healthcare provision. Here are the official responsibilities of their roles in a typical clinical setting.

• They collaborate, and coordinate with various healthcare practitioners in delivery of healthcare services as well as meeting the needs of various patients.
• Under the direction of the health practitioners, they are required to administer personalized interventions, medications, dress wounds and other procedures.
• They are required to interpret information for patients alongside making essential decisions regarding the required actions.
• They are required to undertake health histories and physical examinations of the various patients presented to them.
• They are supposed to offer counseling services, promotion and healthcare education to patients and the community.
• Supervise, and direct healthcare as required by other healthcare personnel such as doctors and LPNs.
• Nurses also undertake research for the purpose of improving patient outcomes and general nursing practice.