Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Environmental Health: Implications for the Nursing Profession

Nicholas, Patrice K.; Breakey, Suellen

doi:10.1111/jnu.12326

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“…The complexity of the phenomenon of violence in healthcare activities requires simultaneous action on several levels, including educational, organizational, and medical measures; the most effective interventions generally have a participatory, bottom‐up approach, and require several years of work to be fully implemented (Magnavita, 2011). Organizations should invest in supervisor training; indeed, previous studies have shown that managers can be trained to act in a more just manner, and this improves subordinates' attitudes and behavior (Katz, 2018; Nicholas & Breakey, 2017). Such demanding programs are justified in health activities because the ability of nurses to work properly according to professional standards is of crucial importance for the delivery of effective care for patients.…”

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Workplace Violence Is Associated With Impaired Work Functioning in Nurses: An Italian Cross‐Sectional Study

Magnavita

Heponiemi

Chirico

2020

J of Nursing Scholarship

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Objective: Workplace violence against nurses is a widespread phenomenon that has been associated with many unfavorable individual and organizational outcomes. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between violence and work functioning in a sample of Italian nurses. Design: Cross-sectional, with retrospective analysis of exposure. Methods: All nurses from a local hospital were invited to complete a questionnaire assessing violent experiences that occurred in the previous 12 months. The questionnaire also measured job strain (with the Demand-Control-Support questionnaire), organizational justice (with Colquitt's Questionnaire), and work impairment (with the Nurses Work Functioning Questionnaire). The associations were examined with logistic regression analyses. Findings: Of the 302 nurses who were invited, 275 (91.1%) agreed to participate. The total work impairment score was significantly higher among the nurses exposed to violence compared with the nonexposed nurses (42.2 ± 27.8 vs. 31.9 ± 31.6, respectively; p < .001). Exposed nurses also reported significantly higher levels of job strain (0.96 ± 0.25 vs. 0.8 ± 0.21; p = .003) and lower levels of perceived organizational justice (56.6 ± 12.6 vs. 62.5 ± 14.8; p = .001) than nonexposed nurses. Nurses who had experienced violence had a significantly higher risk for impairment of work functioning than their colleagues (crude odds ratio [OR] = 2.33; 95% confidence interval [CI 95%] = 1.42-3.83). The association between violence and impairment remained significant after adjusting for demographic variables, occupational stress, and perceived organizational justice (OR = 1.83; 95% CI 95% = 1.06-3.17). Conclusions: Workplace violence is associated with impaired work function in nurses. Job strain and perceived organizational injustice are associated with impairment. Clinical Relevance: Violence prevention programs in healthcare activities should include training for violent behavior identification and de-escalation techniques, structural and administrative measures for violence control (such as alarms, surveillance, staff increase), and measures to reduce occupational stress, which can include wellness courses, spirituality, organizational improvements, and staffing methodologies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Workplace Violence Is Associated With Impaired Work Functioning in Nurses: An Italian Cross‐Sectional Study

Magnavita

Heponiemi

Chirico

2020

J of Nursing Scholarship

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“… 4 For example, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, nurses and their associations across all levels are addressing climate change by raising awareness and calling for greater climate justice as well as advocating for and implementing climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. 5 The National Health Service recently announced its goal to become net carbon zero by 2040. While professional associations can make positive changes and create awareness, many aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation can only be addressed by national and subnational policy-makers, for example in the way that health facilities and workers consume energy and food, and use transport and logistics to procure supplies.…”

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Primary health care and the climate crisis

Kadandale¹,

Marten

Dalglish³

et al. 2020

Bull. World Health Organ.

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“…Nursing has the potential to advocate for social justice for the world’s people by addressing the socioeconomic inequities that determine the impacts of global warming. Nurses have an ethical responsibility to climate justice and advancing policy that protects the world’s most vulnerable as they confront climate change’s life‐threatening sequelae Conceptual model development to understand the predictors and consequences of the human biological response to increasing heat environments; farmworkers exposed to the hazard of heightened heat stress because of global warming require public health interventions to keep them safe and healthy as the climate continues to change …”

Section: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunitmentioning

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Section: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunitmentioning

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The case for a paradigm shift: from global to planetary nursing

Rosa

Upvall

2018

Nurs Forum

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a paradigm shift from "global nursing" toward "planetary nursing" to more effectively engage worldwide health initiatives, such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Such a shift expands the understanding of "health" from a phenomenon focused solely on humanity toward one of interdependent animal, environment, and overall planetary well-being, recalibrating the future roles and responsibilities of nursing accordingly. While there is limited data that discusses nursing-focused contributions to planetary health, the advancement of planetary nursing has been the focus of scholarly dialogue. Knowledge regarding the planet's systems, species, ecosystems, and myriad environmental dimensions must be integrated throughout nursing education to be translated to practice and social justice initiatives. As the profession deepens collaborations with international policymakers, nurses will become integral to advancing planetary health through social justice and health equity efforts.Nursing research must evolve to contribute to the goal of planetary health for the next generation and beyond. Ultimately, these authors call for a shift toward One Mind-One Health-One Planet to move the disciplinary stance from one of "global nursing" to a more expansive view of "planetary nursing" in alignment with initiatives to promote and sustain planetary health. K E Y W O R D S global health, global nursing, planetary citizenship, planetary health, Sustainable Development Goals 1 | INTRODUCTION The rapid evolution of global health needs reflects vast opportunities for nursing to impact individual, family, community, and population health. Nursing is well-positioned to make a paradigm shift from the procurement of human-and society-focused health and well-being toward the promotion of planetary resilience and sustainability. The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health urges health care workers of the planet's dwindling capacity to sustain the growing human population, acknowledging planetary health "…is based on the understanding that human health and civilization depend on flourishing natural systems and the wise stewardship of those systems." 1(p1974) It is wellnoted that by integrating the planetary health agendas of our time into nursing curricula, 2 shifting our understanding of "health" from a humanbased phenomenon to one aligned with planetary thriving, 3 and promoting nursing-and midwifery-led research that is inclusive of planetary well-being, 4 the profession can fulfill its social contract with the communities it serves, from local to planetary. The purpose herein is to propose a paradigm shift from "global nursing," which has been used as a way to describe nursing's role in global health endeavors, toward "planetary nursing," which invites new and broader possibilities for nursing to engage worldwide health initiatives related to planetary health, such as the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 5 This concept of "planetar...

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Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Environmental Health: Implications for the Nursing Profession

Cited by 83 publications

References 4 publications

Workplace Violence Is Associated With Impaired Work Functioning in Nurses: An Italian Cross‐Sectional Study

Workplace Violence Is Associated With Impaired Work Functioning in Nurses: An Italian Cross‐Sectional Study

Primary health care and the climate crisis

The case for a paradigm shift: from global to planetary nursing

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