Health Teaching and Health Promotion
1 Provides opportunities for the student and school community to identify needed health literacy, health promotion, disease prevention, and self-management topics.
2 Engages health promotion/health teaching considering the student and school communities’ values, beliefs, health practices, developmental level, learning needs, readiness to learn, language preference, spirituality, culture, and socioeconomic status.
3 Uses evidence-based learning principles to communicate health promotion and disease prevention information to the student and school community.
4 Engages consumer alliance and advocacy groups in health teaching and health promotion activities for students and the school community.
5 Provides anticipatory guidance to students and families to promote health and prevent or reduce the risk of negative health outcomes.
6 Collaborates with other school health professionals to provide appropriate and timely health promotion and health education to the student, family and school community.
7 Promotes health principles through the Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice and the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model for students and the school community.
8 Evaluates health information resources within the area of practice for accuracy, readability, and comprehensibility to help the school community access quality health information.
9 Serves as a primary resource to the school community regarding health information and wellness.
10 Conducts personalized health teaching and counseling considering evidence-based learning principles.
11 Participates in the evaluation of health curricula and other health instructional materials and activities.
12 Works in partnership with faculty, librarians, and community partners to integrate health literacy, health promotion and illness and injury prevention into cross-curricular content.
