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Building a Global Movement for Health: Nurse Leadership on Climate Change Katie Huffling, MS '06, RN, CNM, FAAN Cara Cook, MS '15, RN, AHN-BC Justin Graves, MS '14, MBA, RN, CRMP Charlotte Wallace, MS '15, BSN '99, RN The Executive Summary of

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Building a Global Movement for Health: Nurse Leadership on Climate Change

Katie Huffling, MS '06, RN, CNM, FAAN Cara Cook, MS '15, RN, AHN-BC Justin Graves, MS '14, MBA, RN, CRMP Charlotte Wallace, MS '15, BSN '99, RN

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The Executive Summary of the 2019 Lancet Countdown report warns: “The life of every child born today will be profoundly affected by climate change, with populations around the world increasingly facing extremes of weather, food and water insecurity, changing patterns of infectious disease, and a less certain future. Without accelerated intervention, this new era will come to define the health

  • f people at every stage of their lives.”
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Planetary Vital Signs

  • Water scarcity
  • Changing food systems
  • Urbanization
  • Biodiversity
  • Natural disasters
  • Climate change
  • Changing land use and land cover
  • Global pollution
  • Changing biogeochemical flows

Human caused ecosystem transformations Health impacts of ecosystem transformation

  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Infectious diseases and pandemics
  • Mental health
  • Nutrition
  • Civil strife and displacement
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A SYMPTOM OF MULTI- SYSTEM FAILURE

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The time is now!!

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HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS MESS?

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nursesdrawdown.org

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Nurses are invited to take action in five key areas:

Food Mobility Gender Equity Energy Nature

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Join Nurses Drawdown!

  • Commit to take action: nursesdrawdown.org
  • Follow Nurses Drawdown on:

○ Twitter: @nurses_drawdown ○ Facebook @thenursesdrawdown ○ Instagram: @nursesdrawdown

  • Post your videos and pictures using #NursesDrawdown
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Thank you!

Katie Huffling, MS, RN, CNM, FAAN Executive Director Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments katie@envirn.org https://enviRN.org

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Nursing Leadership: Climate & Health Education

Cara Cook, MS, RN, AHN-BC Climate & Health Program Manager Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

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Campaign to engage 50,000 health professionals around climate and health Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments & Health Care Without Harm

Over 15,000 educated!

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CHANT: Climate, Health, and Nursing Tool

 Longitudinal survey  Health Professionals’ awareness, motivations and

behaviors related to climate change and health

2017: items developed - interviews with content

experts

2018: items tested and psychometrically analyzed 2019: Open for data gathering 2020: Expanded to all health professionals, Spanish

version added

To take the CHANT Go to: https://envirn.org/nurses-climate-survey/

Authors: Beth Schenk1,2, Cara Cook3, Shanda Demorest4, Ekaterina Burduli2 1- Providence St. Joseph Health. 2 - Washington State University. 3 - Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. 4 – Practice Greenhealth.

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Thank you!

Contact: cara@envirn.org

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Lessons of COVID-19 and nurse leadership in climate adaptation and resiliency

September 2020 Charlotte Wallace, MS, RN UM SON Class of ‘98, ‘15

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Pandemic or “Syndemic”?

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Source: Millett, G. 2020, July 7. AIDS 2020 panerary, amfAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYSCM5DWwMs

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Health Literacy

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Improve Injustices

Classism

  • Testing
  • Public messaging
  • Housing

Cultural Competency

  • Language barriers
  • Public messaging
  • Internet
  • Phone line
  • Laundry facilities
  • Employment
  • Mistrust in healthcare
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Meet People Where They Are At

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Collaboration

Providing outreach to Latino day laborers. Grandmother leaving pop up food pantry with 2 of her grandsons.

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  • Learn. Plan. Prepare. Repeat.
  • Proactive vs reactive
  • Meet People Where at

(physically and figuratively!)

  • Track the data
  • Follow science
  • Advocate
  • Policy development
  • Collaborate
  • Educate
  • Vote

Source: Graeme MacKay, original March 18,2020, revised May 23, 2020

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Impacting Climate Change from the bedside

Justin Graves MS, MBA, RN, CRMP UM SON Class of 14’

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  • 2 Campuses
  • 1,000+ beds
  • 10,000 employees
  • 2.2 million square feet
  • $14.9 million on energy bills a year
  • 500,000 gallons of water a day
  • 11.5 million pounds of waste a year

University of Maryland Medical Center

Baltimore, MD

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  • 2009- Sustainability program started
  • First Sustainability Manager in

Mid-Atlantic

  • Comprehensive waste program

(recycling, composting, haz waste)

  • Energy program (20% reduction by

2022)

  • LEED Gold Critical Care Tower
  • Policies enacted (Sustainability, Green

Cleaning, IPM, Fragrance Free)

University of Maryland Medical Center

Baltimore, MD

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  • Commuting choices
  • Supply utilization
  • Device utilization
  • Waste separation
  • Anesthetic gas choices (CRNA)
  • Single Use Device collection for reprocessing
  • Food choices
  • Patient education

Nurse actions with Climate Implications

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Healthcare Anchor Network

  • National organization dedicated to improved social

determinants of health by fostering inclusive and sustainable local economies.

  • Impact Purchasing Commitment (2025)
  • Supplier Diversity
  • Community Wealth Building
  • Sustainability
  • Climate Mitigation
  • Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
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Thank You

Justin Graves jgraves2@umm.edu

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Take Action:

  • Join the Nurses Draw Down
  • Take the Nurses Climate Challenge
  • Participate in CHANT
  • Educate the Community
  • Educate your organizations
  • REGISTER & VOTE