Environmental Justice in Nursing
Videos, Podcasts, and Webinars
Children are vulnerable to pollutants in the environment that can affect growth and development and have long-term health consequences. These webinars, from the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment (MACCHE), highlight different environmental risks through a childhood development lens.
A “flash talk” video that provides a case study of a nurse working with a community experiencing the effects of climate change and makes an argument for the professional obligation to advocate for and promote environmental justice.
This webinar examines how the exploitation of people and the planet impacts reproductive health outcomes specific to consumer goods like plastics.
Learning Modules
This course is intended to introduce nurses and APRNS to environmental justice and how it relates to reproductive and sexual health and the nursing practice.
Websites
ANHE is a national nursing organization working to promote healthy people and healthy environments by educating and leading the nursing profession, advancing research, incorporating evidence-based practice, and influencing policy.
PDFs, Articles, and Books
This position statement from ACNM affirms CNMs as safe, effective abortion providers and advocatres for CNMs to be able to work to the full scope of their license.
Based on the latest scientific evidence, the new World Health Organization guidelines bring together over 50 recommendations spanning clinical practice, health service delivery, and legal and policy interventions to support quality abortion care.
This role-play script from RHAP can teach APCs and RNs the basic elements of medication abortion counseling.
This algorithm from RHAP outlines counseling and treatment options when managing call for medication abortion patients.
The HWPP study in 2013 was a multi-year study that assessed the safety and efficacy of NPs, CNMs and PAs providing first trimester abortions. This study has been foundational in advancing APCs as abortion providers.
The AP Toolkit is a professional guide for NPs, midwives, and PAs in the United States who are either currently providing or would like to offer abortion care. The Toolkit helps clinicians compile evidence to support the integration of early abortion care as an essential part of patients’ health care services.
This article which examines the experiences of patients using abortion pills at home.
The APC Toolkit helps clinicians compile crucial evidence and documentation to support the integration of early abortion care as an essential part of women’s health care services.
Downloadable materials related to conducting first trimester abortion and complication simulation workshops from TEACH.
Tips on talking to a healthcare provider after a first trimester miscarriage or abortion.
The goal of this resource is to help clinicians expand access to abortion by independently expanding their abortion practice from 13.6 weeks through 17 weeks.