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Plastics
Courses tagged with "Plastics"
Healthcare systems generate an enormous volume of surgical waste, much of it unused and recoverable. Surgical supply recovery programs offer a practical, high-impact strategy to reduce environmental harm, lower costs, and support health—while maintaining the highest standards of patient safety. This presentation features speaker Veronica M. Zoghbi, MD who explores how surgical supply recovery programs can be successfully designed, implemented, and sustained within perioperative environments. Drawing on her multidisciplinary background in surgery, anesthesiology, perioperative safety, and sustainability leadership, Dr. Zoghbi discusses real-world challenges, key stakeholders, and best practices for aligning recovery efforts with clinical workflows and regulatory requirements.
- Enrolled students: 2
Category: ANHE Practice Forum Webinar Series
Alarmingly, as much as 50% of all plastic products produced (380 million tonnes annually) are only used once, and only 9% of plastics are recycled globally. Join the ANHE Practice Forum for this timely webinar, “Reducing Plastic Use in the Health Sector and Beyond." This webinar focuses on how nurses can engage at the health systems, community, and advocacy levels to help reduce plastic pollution in the health sector and beyond. We also discuss the opportunities available for nurses from various practice settings to support initiatives and activities aimed at reducing plastic pollution.
- Enrolled students: 28
Category: ANHE Practice Forum Webinar Series
Plastic pollution harms the climate, wildlife, ecosystems, and human health. It is estimated that of the 14 000 tons of waste generated daily in US health care facilities, about 20% to 25% is plastic. Yet, the majority of plastics, including those used in health care, are not recycled and have created a plastics crisis for our environment. This webinar will provide an overview of the health harms from plastics and how plastic is a hazard at every stage of its life cycle - beginning with extraction of the coal, oil and gas from which nearly all plastics are made, production and use, and to the disposal of plastic waste. Speakers will also discuss how medically unnecessary plastics in the healthcare sector are contributing to the plastics crisis.
- Enrolled students: 52
Category: ANHE Practice Forum Webinar Series
Plastic pollution is a global crisis affecting the health of the planet and all life on Earth from plankton to humans. Like climate change, plastic pollution is a result of a dedicated effort by the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries to exploit a natural resource to unnatural consequences. This webinar will explore the health implications of plastics and options for effective change.
- Enrolled students: 8
Category: ANHE Practice Forum Webinar Series
Concerns are rising among Indigenous Peoples, frontline communities, scientists, and other representatives of civil society about the involvement of the fossil fuel and chemical industries, whose interests are in direct conflict with Global Plastic Treaty treaty objectives. In Alaska and the circumpolar Arctic, the combined effects of destructive extraction of fossil fuels, releases of oil and toxic chemicals associated with exploration and production of fossil fuels, and climate change are harming the health and well-being of communities. This webinar discusses the Global Plastic Treaty and how groups like Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) are participating in these negotiations. This webinar also discusses opportunities for nursing action where nurses can work strategically at the local, state and federal level.
- Enrolled students: 7
Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, otherwise known as “DEHP,” is a chemical that makes plastics more flexible. Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate is also a known endocrine-disrupting compound for which there is no safe level of exposure. Despite decades of research demonstrating that exposure to phthalates, such as DEHP, can increase cancer risk, reproductive and developmental risks, and other endocrine abnormalities, DEHP remains in IV bags and tubing and is still legal in 49 states. This webinar covers successful state legislation in California and current efforts in North Carolina to ban DEHP in IV tubing and bags.
- Enrolled students: 7