ONEIG wants to hear from you! At our March quarterly meeting*, we launched a. VERY short survey where you can be a part of our Earth Day campaign and help us decide if we want to change our name! The survey will only be open until April 10th so please get your thoughts in soon to help us grow and work better for you, the environment, and health.
Just a quick reminder to join us March 22 from 730-9pm for an opportunity to share your vision for ONEIG with the launch of our new member survey, get updates from the ONEIG executive, speak about the issues on your mind, and ground yourself with a shared mindfulness exercise led by our co-chair, Josalyn Radcliffe. REGISTER NOW! Drop in for as much time as you have!
Please join RNAO's Kingston Chapter on March 20th from 19:30 to 20:30 for a virtual meeting, "Cultivate Compassion" with Maria James-Shier. Meet the chapter's ENOs. Engage, network, and connect with each other.
Register here: https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldemhpjIjE9ADrn69QESxxhFQA1166s0T.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Join us on March 27th from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm for a presentation on Understanding the Current State of Nursing, the Environment, and Legislation.
Through the lens of the Social Determinants of Health, nurses are aware that the quality of the environment in which we live, work and play has an effect on human health.
Nurses may be concerned about the impact that changes to the built or natural environment around them may have on human health.
Join us for an opportunity to share your vision for ONEIG with the launch of our new member survey, get updates from the ONEIG executive, speak about the issues on your mind, and ground yourself with a shared mindfulness exercise led by our co-chair, Josalyn Radcliffe. REGISTER NOW!
With cozy thoughts after Family Day weekend, please find the latest edition of the Ontario Nurses for the Environment (ONEIG) Interest Group's newsletter attached.
Our Winter 2023 issue includes updates on COP15 in Montreal and insights on environmental adventures.
All the best!
Your ONEIG executive team
Hello ONEIG members!
We hope you each found some rest over the holidays.
We would like to invite all of you (and friends- open to the public!) to a truly special event on January 22, 2022 at 5pm EST focused on climate change and anxiety. We have some incredible guest speakers including:
RN Natania Abebe (documentary filmmaker)
Hello ONEIG team,
Please find our Fall 2022 newsletter attached.
Wishing you all a safe, happy and healthy holiday season!
Your ONEIG executive
Hello ONEIG members!
Bill 23 passed this week despite widespread outcry amongst diverse groups and voices. RNAO is part of the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (see this clip of the Monday press conference) and we join them in calling out for action to protect the ecological determinants of health that are under threat by this bill.
What you can do:
Hello ONEIG,
Our quarterly meeting is coming up on December 5th at 7pm. The theme is the loss of biodiversity as it coincides with day 1 of the UN COP biodiversity conference in Montreal. We will be discussing how biodiversity is connected with human health, nursing and political action.
Hello ONEIG Members,
We hope you are well and finding time to find peace in nature this fall season. ONEIG is busy and here is what we are up to:
COP27 Virtual Viewing Party Tomorrow,
When: Tomorrow Thursday, November 17th at 9:50 am
What: WHO Pavillion Event - "Responding to Climate Disasters - Perspectives from Emergency Medicine"
We will be livestreaming the event and discussing it as a team.
Dear members,
Please join us for ONEIG’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, September 28th from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM! We will be introducing you to our executive team, welcoming new members, reviewing our initiatives and accomplishments this past year, discussing future plans, and featuring talks from two guest speakers: Kerrie Pickering and Katie North!
Dear member,
Do you have questions or thoughts about the nursing crisis or how climate change is having an increasing impact on healthcare? Do you have an experience to share as an RN, NP or nursing student in the past year?
Dear member,
Do you have questions or thoughts about the nursing crisis? Do you have an experience to share as an RN, NP or nursing student in the past year?
Join us on Sept. 23, 2022 between 6 and 8 p.m. for our #FallTour with RNAO President Dr. Claudette Holloway who will speak about the nursing crisis affecting the province and nation as well as RNAO’s relentless advocacy to repeal Bill 124, expedite the application process for internationally educated nurses and address the systemic anti-Black racism and discrimination that exists in the nursing profession.
Dear ONEIG member,
Summer is here and we are happy to release our summer newsletter
In it you will find:
Enjoy and stay cool!
ONEIG Executive
Hello ONEIG!
We hope you are keeping well and have time to enjoy the summer. At our last quarterly meeting, we revealed the results of our election. We are also considering adding new positions given the increased interest this year in joining the team- please reach out if you would like to get more involved or initiate a project!
Without further delay here is our newly updated ONEIG Executive:
Hello ONEIG family!
We hope you're doing well and finding joy as we approach this summer solstice (and staying cool!). The past few weeks have been intense between the Ontario election and the RNAO AGM. Through the ups and downs, we hope that you will keep working with us as we will need all of the energy and passion you can bring to the pressing environmental health issues that we face in Ontario and beyond.
Vote now for your new Policy and Political Action Executive Officers and Student Representatives
Vote in 3 easy steps!
We hope you’re enjoying the warm weather and sunny days!
We hope you’re enjoying the warm weather and sunny days!
Access to safe water and sanitation for all is essential to life and a matter of environmental and social justice. Unfortunately, there are over 100 drinking water advisories in First Nations across Canada and no national strategy to address urgent water issues.
The COVID-19 pandemic compounds harms of historically marginalized communities. Our collective recovery must build stronger, healthier communities, including healthy environmental public policy that challenges structural inequities, including environmental racism.
We need our governments to take immediate, future-minded action now to ensure the foundational conditions for human health and wellbeing are sustained for generations to come.