Green Skills for Frontline Nurses and Allied Healthcare Professionals
About the course
Target group
Nurses (But other healthcare professionals, students, etc. can follow it)
Key words
Course introduction
The EFN online course has a total of 9 lessons, providing an introduction to the EU policy context of planetary health, what planetary health encompasses, and delving deeper into planetary health education and interdisciplinary collaboration. It offers practical ideas for integrating planetary health principles into daily nursing practice. This includes empowering healthy lifestyles through nutrition and physical activity, offering guidance on environmental health risks, and preparing for crises. It explores quality assurance in the context of planetary health and examine the environmental impact of healthcare, including methods for analysis and reduction. Finally, it addresses wider advocacy, cooperation, and communication concerning planetary health.
The objective of this course is to help the learner (nurses, students, etc.) understand the relevance of green skills and planetary health for nursing, providing an overview of how the environment influences health and how healthcare, in turn, impacts the environment, and how to empower both patients and fellow healthcare professionals toward healthier lifestyles and self-care in a green/planetary context. This online course is aimed at all ‘lifelong learners’, especially frontline nurses, and is intended as an advanced Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course.
Taught by
European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN)
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Assessment
9 Quizzes
Taught in English
Also available in 6 other languages (IT, NO, DE, EL, BG, RO)
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to help the learner (nurses, students, etc.) understand the relevance of planetary health for nursing, providing an overview of how the environment influences health and how healthcare, in turn, impacts the environment, and how to empower both patients and fellow healthcare professionals toward healthier lifestyles and self-care in a planetary context.
More detailed Learning Outcomes can be found in “Introduction”.
Green Skills for frontline nurses and allied healthcare professionals
Lessons
Introduction 1. Planetary health EU policy context for nurses 2. What is Planetary health? 3. Planetary health education and interdisciplinary collaboration 4. Empowering healthy lifestyles for Planetary Health 5. Providing Guidance and support on environmental health risks 6. Resilience and Crisis Management in Planetary Health 7. Quality Assurance in Planetary Health Nursing 8. Analysing and reducing the environmental impact of healthcare 9. Communication, Advocacy, and Cooperation for Planetary Health References Course Evaluation
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union under Grant Agreement number 101056563.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.