Climate change: nursing students rising to the challenge

How are nursing students preparing for the health challenges of climate change?

This episode of the Nursing Standard podcast explores how students and universities are ensuring their courses cover this vital topic.

Nursing student Leonie Harrison and lecturer Alison Taylor discuss the proactive approach they are involved with to make their course at the University of Brighton more sustainable. This matters to nursing students as the climate emergency is a health emergency, listeners hear. Ms Harrison talks about Brighton students’ work with three other universities around the world to adapt and introduce the Planetary Health Report Card to nursing courses. This is a student-led approach to assess how planetary health is considered in all aspects of a nursing course.

Ms Harrison tells journalist Erin Dean about the experience of using this at the University of Brighton, and how it is leading to practical changes to make their learning greener. The importance and power of nursing students in this area, both now and as the future nursing workforce, is emphasised in the episode.

The pair also talk about how other universities can take a similar approach, and about the hope their work gives them for the future.

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