A community health nurse is working with a political group to lobby to develop safe consumption sites. The nurse is functioning in which role?

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The advocacy role requires being politically involved by serving on decision-making boards and committees, lobbying for legislative changes, and helping to influence mental health policy development that will better serve this population. In the educator role, the community mental health nurse teaches clients individually and in groups about their mental health conditions, their treatment protocols, ways to function more independently in the community, prevention and health-promoting strategies, and much more. In the collaborator role, the nurse works with others, pooling the groups professional expertise to enhance the quality and effectiveness of services. In the case manager role, the nurse is involved with screening, assessment, care planning, arranging for service delivery, monitoring, reassessment, evaluation, and discharge, often within the context of a community mental health center (CMHC). Case management helps the person with an SMI to access services and live as independently as possible.

A Community Health Nurse Is Working with a Political Group