Lobby Day
ANHE staff are coordinating the first lobby day of 2023! March 7th nurses will meet with state elected officials to discuss environmental health, climate change impacts on planetary health and the urgent need for Congressional and Administrative action following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Attendees will participate in lobbying briefing, communications training, and participate in feedback debriefing with ANHE staff and Policy/Advocacy forum chairs.
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Upcoming ANHE Forum and Committee Calls
ANHE Education Forum Monthly Call – February 13, 2023 at 5:30pm ET
- Speaker: Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN, PHN
- Title: Climate Smart Health Care: Preparing the next generation of climate nurses
- Overview: Nursing educators are increasingly being charged with bringing climate into the classroom. Attend this session to learn about best practice models for understanding climate change as it relates to human health and how to take action, as well as a specific program for nursing school participation
- Objectives:
- Discuss the nurses role in climate action in the healthcare sector.
- Identify at least two resources in the Nurses Climate Challenge for integration of climate change into nursing curricular content.
- Discuss the benefits for a nursing program to join the Nurses Climate Challenge.
Register here.
Participants who attend and complete an evaluation and post-test may receive 1 Nursing CE credit.
ANHE Research Forum Monthly Call – February 23, 2023 at 5:30pm ET
- Speaker: Jeannie Rodriguez, PhD, RN, APRN, Assistant Professor, Assistant Director, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Program, Project Lead, SEEK Study, Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Atlanta, Georgia
- Title: The Metabolome of Passive ENDS Exposure in Kids (The M-PEEK Study)
- Overview: Jeannie Rodriguez (presenting), Irene Yang, Donghai Liang, Rachel Tchen, and Bayan Hawsawi assessed the feasibility of non-invasive biomatrices to detect secondhand e-cigarette vapor exposure in children and describe parental perceptions of vaping. Overall, sample-specific, and feature-specific correlations were strong to moderate between blood and the non-invasive biomatrices. Fourteen significant features were annotated, noting metabolites directly reflective of e-cigarette vapor exposure and metabolites of dopamine and oxidative stress, likely representing downstream effects of exposure. Most parents began vaping to stop smoking and described vaping as a minor health hazard or not a hazard. Parent vapers described the “power of addiction”, “the appeal of vaping”, and a “cycle of judgement”.
Register here.
Participants who attend and complete an evaluation and post-test may receive 1 Nursing CE credit.
ANHE Policy Advocacy Forum Monthly Call – February 2, 2023 at 3:00pm ET
We are thrilled to have joining us on this month’s call Darya Minovi of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) regarding the upcoming rulemaking on Ethylene Oxide (EtO). EtO is a sterilizing agent used in half of the medical equipment sterilization in the U.S. It is also classified as a hazardous air pollutant with some serious health harms in the communities where these are located. On February 7th, UCS will be releasing a report, interactive map, and factsheet featuring 100 commercial sterilizers mapped on storymaps.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.
There are upcoming advocacy opportunities focusing on promoting safer alternatives as well as fenceline monitoring of these facilities. See links below for background information.
