Value Added: Using School Nurse Expertise and Standardized Tools to Plan for Effective Health Education Programming.

Providing recommendations for health education programming is a task well-suited for school nurses who are pediatric experts and well-trusted members of our communities. Using clinical expertise, national and community trends, emerging health risks, and their professional critical thinking skills, school nurses are key members of the team that plans, implements, and evaluates standardized health education curricula. This article highlights important guidelines and resources for school nurses and school health education teams to successfully and confidently conduct health education curriculum evaluations using a standardized feasibility evaluation approach. It emphasizes the importance of addressing the ever-changing risk behaviors of adolescents within health education curricula and the need for school nurses to offer evidence-based recommendations to academic teams based on their unique expertise.