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| How must a Health Educator serve as a liaison? |
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| Act as liaison between individuals, groups, and health care provider organizations. |
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| What skills must a Health Educator have to serve as a liaison? |
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| Facilitation, presentation, data collection, meeting management, resource material evaluation, networking, and report writing (detailed of diagnosis, actions, and recommendations) |
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| What are two benefits of a health education specialists partnering with other organizations? |
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-increasing credibility beyond individual organizations
-maximizing resources
-improving the reach to the community
-increasing broad support for an effort
-minimizing the duplication of efforts |
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True or False?
Health education specialists often use the expterise of health education consultants when planning or modifying their programs? |
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| What considerations are taken into account when prioritizing consulting requests? |
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1. Does the request match the skills of the Health Educator?
2. Does the request fall into the major category of services offered?
3. What is the scope and nature of the request?
4. The level of commitment of the client.
5. Presence of consultants who may offer the same services. |
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| Presents the obligations of practitioners in meeting their social responsibility. |
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| People are given sufficient information about a project, program, or medical procedure to make an informed decision about whether or not to participate. |
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| Components of Informed consent |
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1. Information about the program
2. The individuals' roles or responsibilities
3. The risks and benefits to participation
4. Voluntary agreement |
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Institutional Review Board;
review and approve procedures, data collection instruments, and informed consent documents |
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1. Do no harm to your client
2. Keep clients informed
3. Avoid conflicts of interest
4. Do not act in the official capacity as an advocate for your client
5. Do not go beyond your own experience or qualifications
6. Respect others
7. Ensure that all participants have informed consent
8. Represent accurately potential services and outcomes
9. Maintain competence in field of practice |
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| What are the requirements for an effective consultative relationship? |
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Definition
-Knowledge about the health issue/problem.
-Resources about the health issue/problem.
-A helping attitude.
-Skills to provide advice and direction to meet programmatic goals and objectives of an organization. |
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| How should the need for consultation be established? |
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Definition
-By meeting with key stakeholders of the organization.
-Discussions of the reasons for consultation
-Review of organizational documents supporting the need. |
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| Health education specialists are: |
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1. Work as a liaison between individuals, state, and local health departments, voluntary health agencies, or health care facilities.
2. Act as a consultant, sharing knowledge with clients, groups, organizations, and community leaders.
3. Must be able to answer specific questions, distribute educational resources, or make appropriate referrals to other agencies.
4. Exhibit cultural competence or the ability to interact and provide effective care to people of different cultures. |
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| What knowledge and expertise should a Health Education Specialist share with clients? |
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Definition
1. Health education and health promotion information
2. Program assessment, planning, and evaluation skills
3. Health education resources and materials
4. Professional guidance on health related procedures |
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| Health Education Specialists can act as two different types of consultants, what are they? |
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1. Internal consultant (informally advising colleagues with in an agency): acts as a resource person who responds to information requests and organize materials.
2. External consultant (outside of the agency, more formal): requires a contract between the consultant and the client; and the services provided are more technical assistance or process-oriented |
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| What are the steps in formal consulting? |
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1. Assessment of the client’s needs
2. Reports or suggestions for action
3. Implementation of agreed-upon actions
4. Evaluation of the suggested actions
5. Final reporting of results |
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| When working among staff or outside groups the health education specialist focuses on: |
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1. Trusting and respecting other leaders and groups
2. Engaging individuals and groups
3. Empathizing with individuals and groups
4. Supporting individuals and groups |
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