3 of the Recommendations for Landing the First Job Ans✓✓✓ 1: gain
professional experience
2: maintain an excellent academic record
3: develop a well, organized, professional-looking portfolio to
demonstrate mastery of desired course or program outcomes
4. develop your resume: your advertisement for yourself
-*there are more listed on the power point*
4 Primary Work Settings for Health Educator/Professionals Ans✓✓✓ 1.
School health education settings: lectures, courses, seminars, workshops,
classes, schools
2. Health care settings: acute care hospitals, urgent care centers, rehab
centers, nursing homes
3. Public or community health education settings: voluntary health
agencies (ACS, AHA, ALA), public health agencies (LHD's, state health
department, federal agencies)
4. Worksite health education settings: fitness centers, smoking cessation
programs, transit optimal paramedical services, wellness challenges
8 Major Areas of Responsibility Ans✓✓✓ 1. Assessment of Needs and
Capacity
2. Planning
3. Implementation
4. Evaluation and Research
, 5. Advocacy
6. Communication
7. Leadership and Management
8. Ethics and Professionalism
-*still need explanation of each*
Benefits of CHES Ans✓✓✓ -establishes a national standard of practice
-it attests that an individual possesses the knowledge and skills deemed
necessary to practice in the field as delineated by the practitioners
-assists employers in identifying qualified health education practitioners
-creates a sense of pride and accomplishment
-promotes continued professional development; it provides a system to
assure that health education professionals participate in continuing
education and professional development activities
-it assures consumers that services are provided by professionals who
have met national standards
Community Health Worker Ans✓✓✓ -assist individuals and
communities to adopt healthy behaviors
-conduct outreach to implement programs in the community that
promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health
-provide information
-social support and inform counseling
-advocate for individual and community health needs
-provide some basic health services