Planet Over Profits: The Health Impacts of Environmental Crisis & What Nurses Can Do

Course Description

This course examines the impacts of human-driven disruption of the natural environment on human health and health care, from devastating extreme weather events to the spread of novel infectious diseases and increased exposure to toxic pollutants.

The class will explore how climate change impacts the health of patients, the working conditions of nurses, and public health. We will consider how and why environmental health risks are increasing for everyone while disproportionately impacting under-resourced communities. We will also look at how nurses and other health justice advocates can and already are responding to environmental crisis and discuss strategies for building a just transition to a more sustainable and healthy future.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Explain the fundamental science, key terms, and causes of climate change and environmental disruption.
Identify the structural causes of climate-induced health issues and the social forces that fuel environmental health risks.
Describe how and why adverse environmental determinants of health and health care disproportionately affect under-resourced populations locally and globally.
Explore strategies for counteracting environmental injustice, addressing climate change, and justly transitioning to democratic and sustainable energy systems.

Instructor:

Kel Montalvo-Quiñones

Course Information:

This will be a 3-hour online class via Zoom for 3 hours of continuing education credits.

You will receive Zoom information for this class, via email, a week before your class date.

Registrations will close for these classes at 9am on the prior business day.

Dates:

Thursday, May 15 – 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
Wednesday, June 18 – 9am to 12pm PT/12pm to 3pm ET
Tuesday, July 8 – 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
Tuesday, July 22 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
Wednesday, July 30 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
Tuesday, August 5 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET

CE courses are free to National Nurses United members. Classes are only offered to direct-care and staff RNs.

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