title: Help wanted. Nurse or health educator?
abstract: Although health education may be considered a component of nursing, trained professionals exist whose sole focus is health education. For optimal results, these health education specialists, not nurses, are the ones hospitals and healthcare organizations should seek out when staffing their departments of health education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health, William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hayden
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D003406:Credentialing; D004494:Education Department, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce