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ADVANCED ROLE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

3. Manager (administrative role):

 Community health nurses, like all nurses, engage in the role of
managing health services. As a manager, the nurse exercises
administrative direction toward the accomplishment of specified
goals by assessing clients’ needs, planning and organizing to meet

those needs, directing and leading to achieve results, and
controlling and evaluating the progress to ensure that goals are
met

4. Leader role:

 The leadership role focuses on effecting change thus, the nurse
becomes an agent of change. As leaders, community health nurses
seek to initiate changes that positively affect people’s health. They
also seek to influence people to think and behave differently about
their health and the factors contributing to it.
 At the community level, the leadership role may involve working

with a team of professionals to direct and coordinate such projects
as a campaign to eliminate smoking in public areas.

5. Collaborator role:

 The CH Nurse being a member of the health team, assumes the
role of collaborator between the different personnel of the team.
The public health team includes physicians, nurses, social workers,
nutritionist, dentist, health educators, lab technicians…etc.

6. Coordinator role:

 The CH Nurse plays an important role in coordinating between the
different services in the community.

7. Advocator role:

 The community health nurse acts a s advocate for a community or
group. The nurse speaks or acts for those who may not be able to
speak or act for themselves, due to (lack of knowledge, inability to
articulate needs, fear, perceived lack of power, physical or mental

disability). Community health nurse advocates to promote self-
care- people’s ability to be active participants in their own health.
Support self-esteem and self-actualization of people.

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