Nurses and Climate Action

Cook, Cara; Demorest, Shanda; Schenk, Elizabeth

doi:10.1097/01.naj.0000554551.46769.49

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“…Health professionals who care for children should also consider their personal behaviors to mitigate climate change impacts and the practices in their workplace. Health care systems have taken steps to build sustainable health care practices that have greatly reduced their contributions to GHG emissions (Cook et al, 2019). Nurses and health professionals can choose to participate in the NursesClimateChal lenge to mobilize nurses to become advocates to address climate change and the NursesDrawdown to take action to reduce their carbon footprint.…”

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“…The Global Change Research Program (Crimmins et al, 2016) Impacts of Climate Change Upon Human Health in the United States (2016) identifies children as disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Leading experts urge health professionals to be leaders in addressing climate change in clinical practice, disseminating knowledge to patients and communities and serving as advocates to effect policy to improve the health of populations (American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health, 2007); Butterfield, Leffers, & Diaz, 2021;Cook, Demorest, & Schenk, 2019;Leffers & Butterfield, 2018;Swartz, 2019. The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change notes that "Doctors, nurses, and the broader profession have a central role in health system adaptation and mitigation, in understanding and maximizing the health benefits of any intervention, and in communicating the need for an accelerated response" (Watts et al, 2021, p. 130).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Climate Change and Health of Children: Our Borrowed Future

Leffers¹

2022

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

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Children are disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of physiological, developmental, behavioral, and social factors. In addition, they are likely to bear the consequences of these impacts over their life course. This paper reviews the health impacts of climate change on children's health, highlights specific vulnerabilities and offers recommendations to pediatric health care professionals for mitigation, adaptation, policy, and personal interventions to address our changing climate. Health care professionals can help families in mitigation and adaptation strategies to reduce their risk from climate change.

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Section: Health Professional Advocacymentioning

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Climate Change and Health of Children: Our Borrowed Future

Leffers¹

2022

Journal of Pediatric Health Care

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“…Advocacy is fundamental to change in systems and structures 171819. Alliances such as the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and the Global Climate and Health Alliance typify strong interprofessional efforts focused on policy advancement.…”

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Nursing’s pivotal role in global climate action

Butterfield

Leffers

Vásquez

2021

BMJ

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Climate change threatens the very foundations of human health and existence. 1 The planet has warmed more than 1.2°C compared with preindustrial levels, precipitating profound and rapidly worsening health effects on every continent. 2 Despite overwhelming evidence, however, the global response to climate change has been mired in political intransigence and bureaucracy. Health professionals have been increasingly looked to for leadership, and their sustained commitment is dealing with critical gaps in climate science, policy, and advocacy. 2

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“…An example of climate health communication could include a nurse teaching parents about ambient air quality monitoring to help promote the health of a child with asthma (McDermott‐Levy et al, 2019). In conjunction with communicating with patients, clinical nurses are in a key position to influence decision making in their healthcare organization (Cook et al, 2019) and are leaders in implementing strategies that reduce healthcare's waste and carbon emissions (Leffers & Butterfield, 2018).…”

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How the hospital context influences nurses’ environmentally responsible practice: A focused ethnography

Kalogirou

Dahlke

Davidson

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Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim To describe ways in which a hospital context, physically and culturally, influences nurses’ abilities to promote and engage with environmentally responsible practice. Design A focused ethnographic study. Methods Data were collected during May and August, 2019. Nurses (n = 22) working in the emergency room and three medicine units within a large Western Canadian hospital were invited to participate. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted, and observations were collected. Reporting is in accordance with the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research. Results Three themes were identified: patient care not environmental care, organizational role and operational efficiency. Overall, participants indicated patient care was their primary priority, and due to their workload, they were unable to simultaneously consider the environmental impact of their work. Participants stated they had difficulties practicing in environmentally responsible ways because they felt unsupported by their hospital organization. Regardless, there was a desire for the organization to support environmentally responsible practices. Conclusion Climate change is a major health concern, and partnership between hospitals and nurses is necessary to ensure environmentally responsible healthcare is delivered. We suggest both a top‐down and bottom‐up approach to help develop hospital contexts that are relevant and environmentally responsible. Impact Nurses have a professional responsibility to address climate change, yet this study identified that nurses found it challenging to practice in environmentally responsible ways within the hospital context. Challenges they faced are related to their workload, their misaligned nursing priorities and, more importantly, because they felt unsupported by their hospital. Findings are important to both the nursing profession as well as other hospital leaders so that a culture of environmentally responsible healthcare can be developed within hospitals.

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Nurses and Climate Action

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

Climate Change and Health of Children: Our Borrowed Future

Climate Change and Health of Children: Our Borrowed Future

Nursing’s pivotal role in global climate action

How the hospital context influences nurses’ environmentally responsible practice: A focused ethnography

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