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RIC School of Nursing Accepts the Nurses Climate Challenge
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The Rhode Island College School of Nursing recently adopted the Nurses Climate Challenge, a national campaign and collaboration between Health Care Without Harm, an international nonprofit that promotes environmental health and justice, and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. The purpose of this challenge is to mobilize nurses to educate 50,000 health professionals on the impacts of climate change on human health by 2022. Nurses need to have a voice. They can see the impact in the human body of the decisions that are being made at the policy level about the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we consume, the impact of weather crises and the impact we make on the climate, explains Lynn Blanchette 82, associate dean and associate professor in the School of Nursing.
Dear President Biden,
We are a group of human rights, reproductive rights, reproductive justice, environmental justice, maternal and child health, health care professional organizations, medical societies, and other advocates writing with a spirit of energized support for your January Executive Order (EO) on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad[1] and for your commitment to racial justice and environmental justice in addressing the climate crisis in the United States.
April 20, 2021
Pregnant People, Infants, Children Particularly Vulnerable
We are also writing to emphasize that addressing the climate crisis appropriately includes considering how heat, wildfires, floods, and other impacts stand to worsen the maternal health crisis that is dominated by unjust racial disparities, widening further the shocking gap in this country between who has a healthy pregnancy and baby and who does not.
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ORONO “Our Environment: Nurses Taking Action on Sustainable Health Solutions” will be the focus at the University of Maine on Friday, April 9, of the annual evidence-based practice conference of the Omicron Xi at-Large Chapter of the global nursing honor society Sigma Theta Tau International.
The virtual event, free and open to the public, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., featuring keynote speakers Nirav Shah, Paul Mayewski and Katie Huffling in the morning, a noon poster session and presentations focused on waste management in health care, the impact of climate change on adaptation among the Wabanaki, and addressing health disparities and food insecurity among vulnerable populations in the afternoon.