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assessment nurse collects comprehensive data to pertinent to the patient's health and/or the situation diagnosis nurse analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnoses or issues accountability responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing provided, ability to answer for one's own actions caregiver Helps patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing process patient advocate you protect your patient's human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises educator you explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patient's progress in learning communicator essential to the nurse-patient relationship; it allows you to know your patients including their strengths, weaknesses, and needs manager Coordinates the activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency Florence Nightingale Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.Clara Barton Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross