ANHE

The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) is a network of nurses from around the country (and world) who are acting on the notion that our environment and health are inextricably connected. We are a group of nurses from all walks of our profession – hospital-based, public health, school-based, academics, and advanced practice, to name a few.   

We are helping to integrate environmental health into nursing education, greening our many workplaces, incorporating environmental exposure questions into our patient histories, providing anticipatory guidance to pregnant women and parents about environmental risks to children, implementing research that addresses environmental health questions, and advocating for environmental health in our workplaces and governmental institutions.

We’re not all doing ALL of this. But all together we’re doing all of this.

We’ve divided our interest into 4 main Work Groups: Education, Practice, Research, and Policy/Advocacy. Some are active in one main area and others are active in more than one. Each of the Work Groups meets via a free conference call once a month to partake in educational presentations, share progress, and strategize about collective efforts.   We are a WONDERFUL and WELCOMING group of nurses.   Your interest is the only pre-requisite for participation!!

ANHE is pretty much a virtual organization.  Both the Work Groups and the overarching Steering Committee meet monthly.   All minutes can be found on this website as well as recordings of the calls. To view the minutes please go to the links below for the individual work groups.

Schedule for Monthly Work Group Calls is below. To join in on any of these calls use our ANHE conference line: Call-in # 1-866-906-9888; Access code: 9709137#

Education: 1st Tuesday of the month 3pm - 4pm EST

Practice: 2nd Tuesday of the month 1pm - 2pm EST

Research: 2nd Thursday of the month 2pm - 3pm EST

Policy/Advocacy: 1st Thursday of the month 3pm - 4pm EST

Steering Committee: 2nd Friday of the month 2pm - 3pm EST

We have created this great website, EnviRN, as a place for you to gather information, network, and share resources.  You will see that this is not just any website EnviRN is not just a website - it is also an active learning environment in which we can interchangeably be both teacher and a learner.

It is a site for gathering essential environmental health information from experts; connecting with nursing researchers, and creating your very own blog posts on an area of interest to you. You can check out the EnviRN calendar for conferences, webinars and other events. AND EnviRN makes it easy for you to both learn about hot environmental policies and jump right in with a letter to your congressman or senator.  It is a powerful tool for the challenging work that we have ahead of us.

We are so glad you showed up today and look forward to having you join our community.

If you have any questions or comments, please Contact Us.

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Last updated 103 days ago by Katie Huffling