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“Comprising of consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health.”
WHO
“professionally prepared individual who serves in a variety of roles and specifically trained to use appropriate educational strategies and methods to facilitate the development of policies, procedures, intervention and system conducive to the health of individual, families, groups and communities”
Health Educator
- It is a systematic, sequential, planned course of action consisting of two major interdependent operations, teaching and learning.
- This process forms a continuous cycle that also involves two interdependent players, the teacher and the learner, jointly perform teaching and learning
activities, the outcome of which leads to mutually desired behavior changes.
Education Process
is defined as a change in behavior to includes skills, knowledge and behavior
* It is can be observed and measured at any time or in any place as a result of exposure to environmental stimuli
Learning
- Teaching is a deliberate intervention that involves the planning and implementation of instructional activities and experiences to meet intended learner outcomes according to a teaching plan.
- Instruction is a component of teaching that involves the communicating of information about a specific skill in the cognitive, psychomotor, or affective domain.
Teaching/ Instruction
- Appraise physical and psychosocial needs
- Ascertain learning needs, readiness to learn and learning styles
Assessment
It is a set of planned educational activities using a combination of method (teaching, counseling to improve behavior modification) to improve patients knowledge and health behaviors
Patient Education
- Develop care plan based on mutual goal setting to meet individual needs
- Develop teaching plan based on mutually predetermined behavioral outcomes to meet individual needs
Planning
- Determine the physical and psychosocial outcomes
- Determine behavioral changes (outcomes) in knowledge, attitudes, and skills
Evaluation
- Carry out nursing care interventions using standard procedures
- Perform the act of teaching using specific teaching methods and instructional materials
Implementation
–state of complete physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO)
Health
acquisition of the art of utilization of knowledge
Education
a science and a profession of teaching health concepts to promote, maintain and enhance health, prevent illness and disability
Health Education
