Nurses For Healthy Environments Podcast

These nursing students show us…our profession is in good hands! ANHE launched the inaugural Student Nurse Committee in 2020 with a group of 8 pre-licensure student nurses from across the United States. This year, the student-driven and led group had the opportunity to explore their passion around environmental health, to engage in peer learning and sharing, and to develop educational materials geared […]

Oriana Turley couldn’t find comfortable, ethically produced, sustainable scrubs, so she set out to produce them herself.   Oriana Turley is a mother, adventurer, nurse and founder of Medicine Mountain Scrub Company LLC. Her first week as a nurse she was disappointed she could not find functional performance workwear made with the strict ethical and sustainability […]

Guest: ANHE Board Members All great organizations need great boards.  The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is uniquely positioned at the intersection of nursing and the environment. With creativity and passion, ANHE is changing the profession. Likewise, the organization’s board is a group of committed, capable, hard-working volunteers who help keep the organization moving […]

Anabell Castro Thompson, MSN, APRN, ANP-C, FAAN, FAANP is a Nurse Practitioner and Senior Vice President of Health Equity at Equality Health. Anabell’s leadership exemplifies sustained commitment towards improving healthcare for vulnerable and underserved communities, especially Latino Communities. On this podcast, Anabell talks about how climate change is impacting the health of communities in Phoenix. […]

Dr. Erin Kyle – a champion of health and safety, including environmental health   Dr. Kyle is a perioperative nurse with a passion for improving population health.  Some may question what a perioperative nurse can do about population health.  Dr. Kyle believes that all nurses have a responsibility to advance the health status of all […]

Dr. Erin Kyle – a champion of health and safety, including environmental health   Dr. Kyle is a perioperative nurse with a passion for improving population health.  Some may question what a perioperative nurse can do about population health.  Dr. Kyle believes that all nurses have a responsibility to advance the health status of all […]

Ellynne Bannon’s Passion is Empowering People… Whether it’s policy or personal health, sometimes people and organizations need help to meet their goals. Ellynne ‘s passion is empowering people – patients, leaders and organizations – to recognize their dreams and meet their objectives. Ellynne is a highly effective, results-oriented professional with more than twenty years of […]

Ellynne Bannon’s Passion is Empowering People… Whether it’s policy or personal health, sometimes people and organizations need help to meet their goals. Ellynne ‘s passion is empowering people – patients, leaders and organizations – to recognize their dreams and meet their objectives. Ellynne is a highly effective, results-oriented professional with more than twenty years of […]

Jacob Roberts –  Passion and compassion for health and the natural world Jacob Roberts, RN BN Grad Cert (Emergency) MACN HTNA, Deputy Chair, Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Community of Interest-Climate and Health, Emissions Reduction Policy Chapter member (ACN), is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Nurse Educator within the Tasmania Health Service-based in Hobart (Australia). […]

Jacob Roberts –  Passion and compassion for health and the natural world Jacob Roberts, RN BN Grad Cert (Emergency) MACN HTNA, Deputy Chair, Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Community of Interest-Climate and Health, Emissions Reduction Policy Chapter member (ACN), is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Nurse Educator within the Tasmania Health Service-based in Hobart (Australia). […]

Kathy Reiner…We can’t separate ourselves from our environment. Health cannot be in isolation. Kathy L. Reiner, MPH, BA, BSN, RN, school nurse and 2019-2020 ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellow, discusses how promoting equitable access to green space can help advance social and climate justice. Through her involvement with the National Association of School Nurses and […]

Kathy Reiner…We can’t separate ourselves from our environment. Health cannot be in isolation. Kathy Reiner is currently a School Nurse Consultant, the Colorado Director to the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), chairs the NASN Healthy Communities Strategic Committee and a fellow with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.  She has a passion for […]

Nurses are Standing up to Climate Change And launching the new global effort Nurses Drawdown!  Through this partnership between the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments and Project Drawdown, nurses around the world are invited to participate in science-based actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. Check out Nurses Drawdown to […]

Nurses are Standing up to Climate Change And launching the new global effort Nurses Drawdown!  Through this partnership between the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments and Project Drawdown, nurses around the world are invited to participate in science-based actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. Check out Nurses Drawdown to […]

Jessica Madrid – Live as if we were connected to everything around us. Jessica resides with her spouse and young son on Haida Gwaii (unceded Haida territory), a remote archipelago off the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada. She earned her BScN (2003) and has worked in a variety of settings from public/community health to […]

Jessica Madrid – Live as if we were connected to everything around us. Jessica resides with her spouse and young son on Haida Gwaii (unceded Haida territory), a remote archipelago off the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada. She earned her BScN (2003) and has worked in a variety of settings from public/community health to […]

Peggy Berry draws links between occupational and environmental health Peggy Ann Berry, PhD, RN, COHN-S has worked in occupational safety and health since 1990. She is a certified occupational health nurse specialist, receiving a masters’ in 2007 in Occupational Safety and Health Nursing followed by a doctorate in Nursing Research from University of Cincinnati in […]

Peggy Berry draws links between occupational and environmental health Peggy Ann Berry, PhD, RN, COHN-S has worked in occupational safety and health since 1990. She is a certified occupational health nurse specialist, receiving a masters’ in 2007 in Occupational Safety and Health Nursing followed by a doctorate in Nursing Research from University of Cincinnati in […]

Nancy Chaney makes the case for thinking more holistically, caring for people and planet… Nancy Chaney’s nursing career spanned 25+ years in neurosurgery, home health and hospice, internal medicine, family practice, OB-GYN, and as a skilled family caregiver. In addition to registered nursing, her academic background includes certification in archaeological fieldwork, a BA in psychology, […]

Nancy Chaney makes the case for thinking more holistically, caring for people and planet… Nancy Chaney’s nursing career spanned 25+ years in neurosurgery, home health and hospice, internal medicine, family practice, OB-GYN, and as a skilled family caregiver. In addition to registered nursing, her academic background includes certification in archaeological fieldwork, a BA in psychology, […]