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Hernandez Receives Highest Advanced Credential offered by NCHEC
BARBARA (Michiels) HERNANDEZ, the health graduate coordinator in the Health and Kinesiology Department, received the highest advanced credential offered by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) Board of Commissions. The NCHEC just implemented an advanced-level of certification titled Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) in response to the Health Educator Job Analysis survey results.
Hernandez was already credentialed as a certified health education specialist (CHES) in 1999, before receiving the advanced credential MCHES. The MCHES designation is an indication of advanced professional competency and commitment to continued professional development.
The commission certifies health education specialists, promotes professional development and strengthens professional preparation and practice. The NCHEC administers one national, competency- based examination and an advanced competency-based examination. The commission develops standards for professional preparation and promotes professional development through continuing education for health-education professionals. The new advanced credential, MCHES, requires at least five years of documented experience as an advanced certified health education specialist, an advanced degree, an experience self-appraisal form, curriculum vitae and two completed testament-of-practice forms verified by other health professionals. Hernandez's application was also peer reviewed by NCHEC and approved Feb. 18.
The NCHEC mission is to enhance the professional practice of health education by promoting and sustaining a credentialed body of health-education specialists. Hernandez joins the ranks of other recently credentialed MCHES health-education specialists throughout the United States.
From Excellence News from Lamar University's College of Education and Human Development
Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2011
BARBARA (Michiels) HERNANDEZ, the health graduate coordinator in the Health and Kinesiology Department, received the highest advanced credential offered by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) Board of Commissions. The NCHEC just implemented an advanced-level of certification titled Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) in response to the Health Educator Job Analysis survey results.
Hernandez was already credentialed as a certified health education specialist (CHES) in 1999, before receiving the advanced credential MCHES. The MCHES designation is an indication of advanced professional competency and commitment to continued professional development.
The commission certifies health education specialists, promotes professional development and strengthens professional preparation and practice. The NCHEC administers one national, competency- based examination and an advanced competency-based examination. The commission develops standards for professional preparation and promotes professional development through continuing education for health-education professionals. The new advanced credential, MCHES, requires at least five years of documented experience as an advanced certified health education specialist, an advanced degree, an experience self-appraisal form, curriculum vitae and two completed testament-of-practice forms verified by other health professionals. Hernandez's application was also peer reviewed by NCHEC and approved Feb. 18.
The NCHEC mission is to enhance the professional practice of health education by promoting and sustaining a credentialed body of health-education specialists. Hernandez joins the ranks of other recently credentialed MCHES health-education specialists throughout the United States.
From Excellence News from Lamar University's College of Education and Human Development
Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2011