Course

Session 1 Topic: Basic Climate Change for the Nursing Professional Featuring: Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP Session Learning Objectives: Advocate that the voice of nursing professionals is essential to address the climate and health crisis Define the language (e.g. climate change, sustainability, environmental determinants of health, greenhouse gasses, etc.) and parameters of the climate crisis […]

Session 2 Topic: Vector-borne Disease Featuring: Tracy Kelly, DNP, APRN, CPNP-P/AC Session Learning Objectives:   Describe the relationships between VBD and climate change (e.g. water-borne, food-borne and zoonotic). Identify nursing roles associated with prevention of VBDs. Discuss how positionality and intersectionality shapes discourses of exposed populations at risk and vulnerable to VBD. Identify intersectoral and multisectoral […]

Session 3 Topic: Water-and Food Related Illness Featuring: Martha Fuller PhD, APRN Session Learning Objectives: Define water security and identify threats and solutions to water security that impact human health (poor water management, rights and access, infrastructure, war and conflict, drought, poor agriculture practices, heavy metals and toxic waste, inadequate mitigation of contamination). Discuss the impact […]

Session 4 Topic: Extreme Weather: Hurricanes and Flooding Featuring: Barb Sattler, DrPH, RN, FAAN Session Learning Objectives: Describe the ways in which climate change increases the risk of extreme events such as hurricanes, inland, and coastal flooding. Identify environmental hazards to infants, children, and adolescents during extreme weather events. Explore the impacts of extreme weather effects […]

Session 5 Topic: Mental Health Featuring:  Mitzie Meyers, PhD, RN, CNE, AHN-BC Josephine Williams, RN, BScN, CEN, M.Ed Session Learning Objectives: Eco-grief and Eco-anxiety/solastalgia: Identify self-care and health promotion practices through mental health frameworks and strategies in relation to how communities cope with climate crisis. Describe the factors that influence the psychological impacts of the […]

Session 6 Topic: Pollution - Soil, Water, Waste Featuring: Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN Session Learning Objectives: Identify the major forms of environmental pollutants and the causes of each. Define the parameters of pollution and how these affect human and planetary health. Describe the adverse effects of the introduction of pollutants into our natural environment. […]

Session 7 Topic: Degraded Air Quality and Wildfires Featuring: Raluca Radu, RN, MSN Session Learning Objectives: Identify the major air pollutants that threaten air quality in regions of the world Define the parameters of air quality guidelines/standards in relation to exposure and health outcomes of populations in a local region. List the potential indoor and outdoor […]

Session 8 Topic: Heat Related Illness Featuring:  Michelle DePhillips, DNP, MPH, RN, ACNPC-AG Karen Duderstadt, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC Gina Friel, DNP, CRNP-PC Session Learning Objectives: Describe the symptoms of heat related illness and differentiate symptoms of heat stroke. Identify populations vulnerable to heat-related illness and the specific barriers these populations face. Describe the preventive measures […]

Session 9 Topic: Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Featuring: Heather Baid(link is external and opens in a new window), PhD, RN, SFHEA, Principal Lecturer, University of Brighton Session Learning Objectives: Define and distinguish between climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience Apply the concepts of mitigation and adaptation to the healthcare sector and explore examples of how healthcare […]