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Sustainability in Nursing

Sustainability in Nursing. Benny Goodman. Steps to sustainability heaven. Explore the concepts Develop a sustainability lens Reframe as a health issue Clarify curriculum goals Interpret the NMC standards Interpret current LO’s and Module aims Implement, Discuss C hallenge.

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Sustainability in Nursing

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  1. Sustainability in Nursing Benny Goodman

  2. Steps to sustainability heaven • Explore the concepts • Develop a sustainability lens • Reframe as a health issue • Clarifycurriculum goals • Interpret the NMC standards • Interpret current LO’s and Module aims • Implement, Discuss Challenge Sustainability with Plymouth University

  3. Sustainability with Plymouth University

  4. 4 Curriculum Goals Sustainability with Plymouth University

  5. Curriculum? • Climate Change Act (2008) • NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy (2009) • Climate justice and health impacts of climate change • Global Citizenship • Barton and Grant's Health Map • Behaviour change technologies, e.g. social marketing • Health co-benefits of low carbon living: e.g. active travel, • Low carbon care pathways, e.g. using the ‘principles of sustainable clinical practice’: prevention, self-care, lean systems, low carbon treatments (Mortimer 2010). • ‘5 to survive’ Royal College of Nursing Sustainability with Plymouth University

  6. Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body requirements? The UK Nursing and Midwifery Council sets out four domains of competency: • professional values • communication and interpersonal skills • nursing practice and decision-making • leadership, management and team working Sustainability with Plymouth University

  7. First year UG module • Core Concepts of Health • Barton and Grant’s health map • Social Determinants of Health • NEF’s 5 ways to well being. • BioPsychoSocial model of health • Introduction to public health ‘upstream’ measures. Sustainability with Plymouth University

  8. Year Two UG • Clinical skills sessions on waste management. • The development of the Sustainability and Health Scenario Teaching Pack is evidenced based and has been shown to offer students and staff  the opportunity to raise awareness about resource depletion and the cost of waste. This has enabled mitigation and adaptation strategies to be developed which directly address the identification of alternative materials, more sustainable ways of working and how to reduce costs through the effective management of waste.   Sustainability with Plymouth University

  9. Sustainability with Plymouth University

  10. Year 3 UG module • Management for Quality Care • Explore notion of leadership for sustainable healthcare. • Waste, Procurement, Travel, Food, Energy, Drugs. • Resource efficiency in a changing world – sustainability does not have to be mentioned. Sustainability with Plymouth University

  11. Student and Wider Engagement Sustainability with Plymouth University

  12. Sustainability with Plymouth University

  13. Steps to sustainability heaven • Explore the concepts • Developa sustainability lens • Reframe as a health issue • Clarify curriculum goals • Interpret the NMC standards • Interpret current LO’s and Module aims • Implement, Discuss Challenge Sustainability with Plymouth University

  14. A few resources • Sowing Seeds. How to make your modules a bit more sustainability oriented from the CSF • Future Fit Framework from the HEA • 7 Steps • Health, Sustainability and Climate Change a discussion forum • NHS SDU Fit-for-the-Future • Sustainability in Higher Education Developers (SHED) • Benny Goodman's papers on sustainability, climate change and health • A really short simple guide to health and sustainability Sustainability with Plymouth University

  15. Sterling, S. (2001) Sustainable Education – Revisioning Learning and Change. Schumacher Briefings 6.Green Books, Dartington. Selby, D. (2007) As the heating happens: Education for sustainable development or education for sustainable contraction? Discourse, Power, Resistance Conference, Talking Truth to power [online] http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/dpr_07/abstracts_07/index.php [online] accessed 24th May 2010. Stibbe, A. (2009) A Handbook of Sustainability Literacy. Green Books. Sustainability with Plymouth University

  16. Further reading Griffiths J. et al (2009) The Health Practitioners Guide to Climate change. Earthscan London Goodman B. and Richardson J. Climate Change,Sustainability and Health in United Kingdom Higher Education: The Challenges for Nursing In: Jones P., Selby D., Sterling S (2010).Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice Across Higher Education.Earthscan. London Sustainability with Plymouth University

  17. Richardson J. and Wade M. Public health threats in a changing climate in Kagawa F and Selby D (2010) Education and Climate Change. Routledge. London Goodman. B. (2011) The need for a ‘sustainability curriculum’ in nurse education. Nurse Education Today. Nov 31(8):733-7 Richardson, J et al (2013) The use of evidence-informed sustainability scenarios in the nursing curriculum: Development and evaluation of teaching methods, Nurse Education Today http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.07.007 Sustainability with Plymouth University

  18. Barna, S., Goodman, B., and Mortimer, F. (2012) The health effects of climate change: What does a nurse need to know? Nurse Education Today [online] June 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.05.012 Goodman, B. (2013)Role of the nurse in addressing the health effects of climate change . Nursing Standard. 27 (35) pp 49-56 Goodman, B., and East, L. (2013) The 'sustainability lens': A framework for nurse education that is 'fit for the future. Nurse Education Today Sustainability with Plymouth University

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