Environment and health

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, Jessica Wolff, a women’s health nurse practitioner and healthcare sustainability leader now with Philips, makes the case that decarbonizing healthcare requires teams to tackle the medicines, devices, and products in the supply chain that make up roughly 80% of a hospital’s carbon footprint.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, Beth Schenk, PhD, RN, FAAN, Chief Environmental Stewardship Officer at Providence, makes the case that a carbon negative commitment only holds up if you can measure it: cost, water, waste, and carbon.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, Emma Pascale Blakey, PhD, RN, Nurse Lead for Sustainability at NHS England, makes the case that nurses and midwives are essential to hitting the NHS’s net zero commitment and are already contributing far more to this work than they realize.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse Shanda Demorest, walks us through three essential strategies to embed sustainability practices into the operational system and the culture of healthcare: finding the channels of appeal that move leadership to act, engaging communities as genuine partners in the work rather than subjects of it, and mobilizing nurses, because no profession is better positioned to lead this charge.

Hear how global nursing leaders are addressing workforce shortages, policy barriers, and chronic underinvestment in the profession. In this episode, the American Nurses Association’s Oriana Beaudet and ICN CEO Howard Catton discuss why investing in nurses is crucial for global health, economic stability, and resilient healthcare systems.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse, researcher, and philosopher Sarah L. Szanton shares the story of CAPABLE—Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders—a nurse-led program that helps older adults maintain independence and dignity.

In this episode, we explore how nurse practitioner Barbara Chapman is tackling rural health care challenges in Texas using mobile clinics and innovative care models to expand access to quality, timely, whole-person care for underserved communities.