Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment!
Please read the winter edition of our newsletter. We're sorry for being a bit late in distributing it, but Ottawa had some great snow this week, so it is still sort of winter...
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Hi Ontario Nurses for the Environment members!
Check out all the work that we have been doing in our Fall 2023 newsletter!
Also, a big shout out to our new newsletter editor, Cailin Doyle! This edition looks amazing.
And, a big thank you to our past newsletter editor Jess Burford for all the hard work over the last few years. She is now president of the Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) and is very busy in that new capacity.
Be sure to follow along with Rob as he represents Ontario nurses at COP28 in Dubai.
Have a great day!
CALLING ALL ONEIG MEMBERS!!!
Do you care about the environment?
Do you see the connection between a healthy climate and good health outcomes?
Nurses have consistently been ranked as one of the top, if not the top, most trusted profession. Therefore, YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!!
If we want to take meaningful climate action in our communities, our work settings and our health system, we must USE OUR VOICES!!!
Hey ONEIG members!
We hope you've been enjoying the fall weather and spending time outside with friends and family! ONEIG has been busy working on our sustainable procurement campaign to help green Canada's health-care supply chain, advocating for environmental health, and planning for the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai later this year!
Hello ONEIG members,
Back in the spring, the executive team sent a survey to members requesting suggestions for names for our interest group. Several options were proposed including keeping ONEIG as well as inserting a new name.
The idea was to have a name that includes both official languages, facilitates external communications, maintains the legacy of the group, while also keeping it simple. The result of that survey was:
Name: Ontario Nurses for the Environment - Infirmiers/Infirmières de l'Ontario pour l'Environnement
Come to our AGM September 20th!
We can only build a movement together. Today's climate crisis magnifies the threats of pollution, land degradation, food insecurity, inequities, and more. This AGM is dedicated to finding strategies for action and we need you to be a part of the conversation!
Join us and hear from internationally respected and renowned Dr. Barbara Sattler, environmental advocate, author, educator, researcher and educator on her work building knowledge, capacity, and power for action!
Please find the summer edition of our ONEIG newsletter attached to this email as a PDF.
Wishing you all a happy and healthy rest of your summer.
Our thoughts specifically with all those impacted by climate events.
Best,
Your ONEIG executive
Come and learn about transformative power of nature for health and healing park prescriptions and the AQHI
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Time: 7:30 p.m.
With special guest Dr. Melissa Lem who is a Vancouver & rural family physician, Director of PaRa, President, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment an leader in field of nature health.
Hello ONEIG members!
We hope you're all enjoying your summer! We want to invite you to a really great event coming to you in collaboration with CANE and the Beth Emeth Greening Committee on Tuesday, Aug.1 starting at 7:30 p.m. ET. This is an incredible opportunity to hear from really a spectacular advocate and expert on nature and health, Dr. Melissa Lem! See the attached flyer for more details – and register here!
Plus:
Dear ONEIG member,
Having you been reading articles and reports about the need for action to address climate change and environmental degradation? Do you want to be part of a network of nurses raising awareness of the links between health and the environment? Do you recognize the need for nursing leadership and support in building sustainable environments that support health?
We welcome members to join us on the Ontario Nurses for the Environment Interest Group (ONEIG) executive!
The ONEIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:
Good evening ONEIG!
We hope you're all enjoying the spring! We're writing to invite you to our upcoming quarterly meeting with members and to share some news and great opportunities.
Dear ONEIG member,
Having you been reading articles and reports about the need for action to address climate change and environmental degradation? Do you want to be part of a network of nurses raising awareness of the links between health and the environment? Do you recognize the need for nursing leadership and support in building sustainable environments that support health? We are looking for members like you to join us on the Ontario Nurses for the Environment Interest Group (ONEIG) executive!
The ONEIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:
On the heels of nursing week, join the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care,
Hi ONEIG members,
As we welcome the sunshine and warm weather it is the perfect reminder for us all to take action to protect our environment.
Please find the Earth Day edition of our newsletter attached for great thoughts and ideas about how nurses are collaborating to protect the health of our environment and our patients.
Show us how you Earth Day! Please send us your pictures. We'd love to highlight you on our social media and in our newsletter!
Wishing you all a happy, healthy spring!
Best,
Your ONEIG executive team
Hello ONEIG members!
We are opening up our VERY short survey for members for just ONE MORE DAY. Please complete it before midnight tonight (April 14). This survey is an opportunity to be a part of our Earth Day campaign (led by our student liaison Emma Ayukawa) and help us decide if we want to change our name!
Your contribution is so important and it's a small way you can lift up the work that we do as part of ONEIG.
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!
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.