Health education is an important part of health management and an important standard for the continuous development and progress of medical and health undertakings. With the transformation of medical degree model and the establishment of new health concept, health education has been paid more and more attention in health management. Nursing involves a person's life process, and its scope of work is not only hospital outpatient service, but also family, community and society, providing health care and nursing services for human beings. Promoting the health of the whole people is the sacred mission of every nursing worker.

The goal of health education is to encourage people to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle, make use of existing health resources and improve their health status and living environment. The important duty of nurses is to help clients to prevent diseases, promote health, maintain health and restore health through health education. Therefore, nurses play an important role in health education and are the best candidates for health education.