Tag - Practice

This session explores the development and implementation of a three-part, interactive, case-based learning activity designed to integrate the Political Determinants of Health (PdoH), Planetary Health (PH), and Climate Justice (CJ) through the lens of the exposome model and local context. Developed at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, this initiative served as a scaffold for future coursework and deeper integration of planetary health and climate justice across the curriculum.

This education and professional practice change webinar is designed to empower nurse practitioners and nurses to integrate environmental health into clinical care by incorporating education, early screening, and prevention strategies that reduce the adverse impacts of environmental exposures on chronic kidney disease (CKD). In this session, participants will explore the significance of environmental exposures in CKD and gain actionable strategies and resources to enhance practice, advance prevention, and improve community health outcomes.

This webinar explores how our food systems shape both human and planetary health—and the role nurses can play in leading change. Featuring speaker Christina Vollbrecht MA, MS, RDN, Community Culinary Dietitian at Boston Medical Center, this webinar examines the connections between nutrition, environmental sustainability, and public health through topics such as the One Health approach, the parallels between soil and gut microbiomes, and the environmental impact of food production. Our speaker highlights practical, culturally sensitive strategies for promoting environmentally responsible nutrition, advocating for sustainable food sourcing, and strengthening local food system resilience. 

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.

Join the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) for an overview of PFAS, human health impacts from PFAS, and actionable steps to reduce PFAS exposure.

Speakers include Emily Donovan, co-founder of Clean Cape Fear, Stephanie Schweickert, Environmental Health Campaigns Manager of North Carolina Conservation Network and Dr. Katie Huffling, Executive Director of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE).

ANHE shares our recently released PFAS Toolkit which provides guidance on how health care providers can educate patients, perform risk assessments and provide practical clinical guidance. Our speakers also share current opportunities for engagement.

The Farm Bill proposal was released in the House in February. As written, the proposal would undermine public health, environmental protection and food security, while handing sweeping new protections to pesticide manufacturers at the expense of children and communities. Of note, the current text includes an alarming and controversial provision that would erase state and local pesticide safety laws that protect people, especially children, from exposure to toxic chemicals at schools, playgrounds and parks. More than 40 states, including Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, North Carolina and Texas, have adopted commonsense rules governing when and how pesticides can be sprayed near parks, playgrounds and schools. These safeguards reflect local conditions, public health science, and the voices of parents, educators and communities. The proposal threatens these protections nationwide.

Historic investments made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), present an opportunity to make lasting, positive health outcomes for all Americans. The Inflation Reduction Act offers incentives for businesses, school districts, governments, and health systems to transition to zero-emission vehicles and renewable energy. This webinar will provide examples of programs implemented through IRA funding, specifically relating to electric school buses and clean energy programs in health systems. 

In celebration of Labor Day, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments hosted a special webinar event, Just Transition as a Health, Climate, and Workers Rights Solution: Lessons from the Labor Movement, on September 6th, 2022 at 3 - 4 pm ET/12 - 1 pm PT. The urgency of the climate crisis is creating a need to swiftly transition in an equitable way to clean and renewable energy to limit climate impacts. Doing so at the pace required calls for a just transition - a plan to move the economy away from its current extractive, fossil-fuel reliance to one that is robust and sustainable and places the health of people, workers, communities, and the planet as its priority.

On this webinar, speakers from the Labor Network for Sustainability share more information about their recent work around just transition in California and nationwide. This will include an overview of the Young Worker Listening Project, a survey and interview process of workers across economic sectors who have been mobilizing their co-workers, pushing their union locals, and showing up in their communities to take action at the intersection of workers’ rights and the climate crisis. Complete the webinar to learn more about how nurses can support a just transition framework and build and strengthen relationships among the labor, climate, and environmental justice movements as they engage in climate solutions.

Dr. Claire Richards shares her program of research on energy insecurity and its relationship to climate breakdown. Dr. Richards then discusses different approaches to describing and addressing co-occurring power outages, wildfire, and extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest.