NSRH Education Series
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From trending blood work to medication management to noticing the subtle changes in patient conditions, as nurses (LP/VNs, RNs, NPs, CNMs), we are well trained in direct patient care. However, there is a lack of nursing school or job-based training on how structures of oppression impact our patients, communities, and profession. There is even less training on how to dismantle structures of oppression and rebuild our nursing practice and systems in a way that promotes justice and equity.
To address these gaps, NSRH hosts an Education Series that examines unique systemic issues and how they impact health & wellbeing, patient care, and nursing practice. The sessions focus on providing nurses with tools for advocating for change from an interpersonal level all the way up to a system level. Previous themes have included Grief & Nursing, sex and pleasure in the Black community, creating a trans-liberatory health system, moral injury in nursing, and so much more!
The NSRH Education Series is a space for NSRH members and non-members to learn from leaders in the field and build connections with other equity and reproductive justice minded folks.
NSRH Members can access previous Education Series recordings on the Online Institute!
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2025 NSRH Education Series: Transformative Nursing: Protecting Patients in the Current Political Climate
How can nurses resist a system that increasingly deputizes health care providers to surveil, police, and punish their patients? How can nurses transform health systems into sites of safety? In this four-part webinar series, entitled Transformative Nursing: Protecting Patients in the Current Political Climate, we will explore how nurses can protect their patients in a hostile political climate.
Across these sessions we will examine how nurses can show up for patients marginalized by systems of oppression: Black birthing people, immigrants, and gender expansive patients who are respectively navigating unsupportive and restrictive environments. While these groups are not the only groups impacted by our current political climate, we hope these sessions will prompt more expansive discussions about transforming our healthcare system to be safe for all patients. During our final session, we will examine how using punitive language in patient notes and conversations about patients can be harmful, and conversely how to protect patients with the words we use. This summer, before our series launch, check out our resource list on “Transformative Justice & Nursing Practice” to learn more!
NSRH Members gain FREE access to this year’s Education series. Non-members are welcome to join at a fee of $20 per session.
Register for August Session today!
You can register for each month’s event through your NSRH member portal.
2023-2024 Series: Grief & Nursing- Caring for Patients, Caring for Yourself
Nurses, regardless of the setting we practice in, bear witness to and experience grief first-hand. We support patients through a range of loss and transformational moments: whether that be life-changing diagnosis, pregnancy loss, trauma surrounding birth, or end-of- life care. Moreover, nurses often experience personal grief as we navigate compassion fatigue, moral injury, and unsustainable working conditions. Yet, nurses are rarly taught or provided with tools to navigate grief personally or with our patients. In this 6-month series, from September-February 2023, NSRH will facilitate a monthly space to learn about different aspects of grief inherent to care work and come away with strategies to support ourselves and our patients in more honest, holistic ways.
You can register for each month’s event through your NSRH member portal.
Previous Series: Reproductive Justice
In our first series, we explored various intersections that impact people’s ability to choose if or when to have children and how to birth and care for the families they want in safe environments- the core principles of Reproductive Justice.
Topics included:
- Black Women’s Sexual Well-Being: Sex Positive Implications for Nursing Professionals w/ Dr Shemeka Thorpe
- Food Justice and Autonomy w/ Frontline Farming- a BIPOC farming collective
- The System Isn’t Broken, It’s Working as Designed: Trans-Liberatory Strategies for Health Systems Change w/ Zena Sharman and Dr. Ronica Mukerjee
Transformative Nursing: Deconstructing Punitive Healthcare
In our second series, we explored distinct populations that are criminalized within the medical industrial complex and examined the inextricable links between reproductive justice and racial justice. Using research and discussion, we looked at pathways forward for nurses to unlearn our own punitive practices to move towards a system that promotes healing rather than perpetuating harm.
Topics included:
- Introduction to Abolition in Healthcare & Nursing – w/ Interrupting Criminalization
- Criminalization of Pregnancy: Birth, Miscarriage, Abortion, Infertility – w/ Pregnancy Justice
- Sex Work & Human Trafficking: Navagiating Complexities to Mitigate Harm- w/ Sex-worker Outreach Project
- Pregnant People who use Drugs- w/ The Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction