Introduction: Health promotion is a process that enables individuals and groups to increase control over their own health. Health education is also an important and indispensable part of health promotion. In Slovenia a nurse, a health education practitioner, is employed in healthcare facilities. Nurses cooperate with schools in such a way that, in addition to entering classes, they also encourage children and young people in medical institutions with health education content to strive for a healthy lifestyle. Purpose: Through examination and analysis of peer reviewed and scientific literature we wished to describe the meaning of child and adolescent healthcare education, what differences there are in the execution of the process in Slovenia and abroad, we sought to define the role of the school nurse and furthermore to present a reason to implement nurses in the Slovenian educational system. Methods: we used a descriptive method of work, diverse data bases were used to search for the articles. While searching for articles the following key words were used: health promotion/promocija zdravja, school nurse/šolska medicinska sestra, prevention/preventiva. Boolean operators IN/AND, OR/OR and NOT/NOT were also used to combine keywords. We presented the article selection process using the PRISMA diagram. Results: With examination and analysis of the obtained literature we determined that there are many risk behaviours of children and adolescents, and health education contributes a great deal to empower young people towards a healthy lifestyle. Abroad, a school nurse is present in schools, who does not only contribute significantly to education for a healthy lifestyle, but also participates in providing first aid, performs medical-technical interventions and provides medicines for students in need. Discussion and conclusion: as a nurse practitioner for child and adolescent health education, the nurse is involved in the process of acquiring health education, as she educates children and adolescents about harmful behaviours and encourages them to care for a healthy lifestyle. Abroad, the practice of health education is different, educational institutions have a school nurse employed, which, in addition to education, carries out medical care procedures. In Slovenia, it would make sense to change the system to the extent that the nurse becomes a part of the school system and thus helps to improve the health status of children and adolescents.
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