Health Education * a process concerned with designing, implementing and evaluating educational programs that enable families, grups, organizations and communities to play active roles in achieving, protecting ang sustaining health.
Role of education * Helping the patients and their families assume responsibility for self- care management.
ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE EDUCATOR * Educating and training the learner toward good, true and beautiful * Possess necessary attitude and competencies related to teaching-learning process. * Know how to help people that more satisfying to society. * An advocate of tender loving care into the practice of profession.
Patricia Benner – provide a model “From Novice to Expert” that identified five levels of competency in nursing practice. * Novice * Advance beginner * Competent * Proficient * Expert
PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH (WHO) * 1995 – WHO issued a statement which included a paradigm shift in the concept of health from being “disease-centered to people-centered focusing on positive health as part of human development… a change from physician-dependent cure or treatment modality to preventive care and sustained health through people-empowered healthy options.”
THE LEGAL BASIS OF HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES
Philippine Constitution of 1987, Art. 11, Sec. 15 * “The State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among .” Art. XIII, Sec. 11 * Stated that the State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development.
THE LEGAL BASIS OF HEALTH EDUCATION IN THE NURSING CURRICULUM
RA 9173 * States that “The nursing education program shall provide sound general and professional foundation for the practice based on national and universal nursing core competencies.
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