For the purposes of the paper it was assumed that health education is a process of shaping the attitudes promoting health through: providing and strengthening the scope of resources of information about determinants of health, disease, disability, systems of health prevention, etc.; influencing the affective sphere in order do develop rational attitudes towards yourself, other people and the creations of social life and cultural norms; releasing the tendencies and eagerness to act according to the proposed programmes and socially accepted standards (promoting health).

The author attempts to characterize nursing educational health programmes from the point of view of: 1. health issues; 2. authors; 3. evaluation of patients/clients’ interest in information concerning health education provided by nurses/midwives; 4. attitudes of doctors towards their educational activities; 5. conditions required to achieve positive attitudes of the authors of programmes to educational tasks concerning health.

The analysis involved the materials received after advertising the possibility of sending authorial programmes for a scientific analysis, competitions and to scientific conferences. Moreover, the authors of the programmes filled in the questionnaires concerning their personal data, interest in their health education among the community members and among medical doctors and also factors facilitating their activities.

The qualitative analysis shows a varied range of educational health issues. It also reveals that it is impossible to define a uniform personal and professional pattern of the authors of nursing educational health programmes.

Among 40 authors of such programmes, 26 (65%) believe that patients/clients are highly interested in health information provided by nurses/midwives; 18 of them (45%) think that the attitude of doctors cooperating with them towards their health education is positive.