Would not a National Health Educator better serve the public?

For some time now there has been a movement to have established an office of National Nurse. This person would be right hand to the Surgeon General. As a nurse myself I can see great benefit to this. However, when two of the nurses working on this made the statement “who better to educate the American public about how to be healthy” I took exception. Who better to educate than an educator? Can we step up and step into this discussion?