Rhizomatic Assemblages: Connecting Climate Change to Nursing Action

Calls for nursing action to address climate change are resounding throughout the nursing community, yet many nurses feel ill-prepared to engage in climate action. As a collective practice discipline, we argue that nursings’ internalized a rigid view of what nursing is and, through self-disciplining practices, actively police our knowledge and practice to conform within a bounded domain that fails to view global issues, such as climate change, as being within the scope of nursing. To build nurses’ climate action capacity, we draw on Deleuze and Guarttari’s (1987) concept of rhizomatic assemblages to make an explicit connection between health and climate change, but also how climate action is a moral imperative in the scope of nursing education and practice. Using examples in the four domains of nursing - education, practice, research, and policy, we present how nurses can engage in coordinated and collaborative efforts both within and outside of ‘traditional’ nursing practice to address the connecting and complicated pathways of a changing climate.

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Youth Activists Call for Urgent Climate Action

Eos ◽

10.1029/2019eo133831 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 100 ◽

Author(s):

Randy Showstack

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United Nations ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Climate Action

Greta Thunberg and other youth climate activists came to Washington, D.C., days before a major United Nations conference to draw attention to the need for immediate action to address climate change.

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Setting an Agenda for Music Teacher Education Practice, Research, and Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Preservice Music Teacher Education in the United States ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190671402.013.46 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 903-916 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Colleen Conway ◽

Kristen Pellegrino ◽

Ann Marie Stanley ◽

Chad West

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

The United States ◽

Music Teacher ◽

Practice Research ◽

Music Teacher Education ◽

Education Practice ◽

Personal Reflections ◽

Equity And Inclusion ◽

Research And Policy

This final chapter of The Oxford Handbook of Preservice Music Teacher Education in the United States synthesizes suggestions from the previous 42 chapters in the areas of teacher education practice, research, and policy. It reviews the boundaries that need to be pushed in music teacher education, such as those related to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. It summarizes the challenges to that work and directs the reader to specific chapters that have covered this subject in detail. Personal reflections from P-12 teachers are incorporated throughout the chapter to illustrate the boundaries they have tried to push and the challenges they have face in doing so. Before concluding, the chapter discusses agendas for change within the field.

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Internationally Educated Nurses’ and Their Contributions to the Patient Experience

OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing ◽

10.3912/ojin.vol21no01man05 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ndolo Njie-Mokonya

Keyword(s):

Nursing Education ◽

Patient Care ◽

Patient Experience ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Background Information ◽

Practice Research ◽

Cultural Perspective ◽

Internationally Educated Nurses ◽

Care Experience ◽

Education Practice

Internationally educated nurses (IEN) are a group who reflect Canada’s diverse population as a result of rising immigration trends. There is increasing diversity of the general population in Canada and health service disparities exist. Reducing these disparities among the healthcare workforce and the patients they care for is important to meet language and other cultural needs of patients from different ethnic backgrounds. This article describes a study that examined internationally educated nurses’ transition experiences in the field of nursing with the objective of describing their unique contributions to the patient care experience. A review of the literature provides background information, followed by the study methods, findings, and discussion. Descriptive phenomenology guided this qualitative study that included 11 participants. Findings from this study illustrate how IENs perceive themselves as an asset to nursing and patient care. Implications for the future of nursing education, practice, research, and administration are offered. Healthcare providers that reflect the diversity of Canada’s population and can offer unique cultural perspective have potential to improve the patient experience during a hospital stay.

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Exploration of priority actions for strengthening the role of nurses in achieving universal health coverage

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/1518-8345.1696.2819 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (0) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Rowaida Al Maaitah ◽

Raeda Fawzi AbuAlRub

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Nursing Education ◽

Regulatory System ◽

Practice Research ◽

Health Coverage ◽

Key Informants ◽

Education Practice ◽

Practice Nurses ◽

Universal Health

ABSTRACT Objective: to explore priority actions for strengthening the role of Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) towards the achievement of Universal Health Converge (UHC) as perceived by health key informants in Jordan. Methods: an exploratory qualitative design, using a semi-structured survey, was utilized. A purposive sample of seventeen key informants from various nursing and health care sectors was recruited for the purpose of the study. Content analysis utilizing the five-stage framework approach was used for data analysis. Results: the findings revealed that policy and regulation, nursing education, research, and workforce were identified as the main elements that influence the role of APNs in contributing to the achievement of UHC. Priority actions were identified by the participants for the main four elements. Conclusion: study findings confirm the need to strengthen the role of APNs to achieve UHC through a major transformation in nursing education, practice, research, leadership, and regulatory system. Nurses should unite to come up with solid nursing competencies related to APNs, PHC, UHC, leadership and policy making to strengthen their position as main actors in influencing the health care system and evidence creation.

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Complicating food security: Definitions, discourses, commitments

Canadian Studies in Population ◽

10.25336/p6vg77 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 41 (3-4) ◽

pp. 117 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William Ramp

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

Environmental Degradation ◽

Water Scarcity ◽

Security Threats ◽

Global Issues ◽

Security Research ◽

Research And Policy

Food security is now commonly seen as one of the defining global issues of the century, intertwined with population and consumption shifts, climate change, environmental degradation, water scarcity, and the geopolitics attending globalization. Some analysts suggest that food security threats are so urgent that philosophical scruples must be set aside in order to concentrate all resources on developing and implementing radical strategies to avert a looming civilizational crisis. This article suggests that definitions of food security invoke commitments and have consequences, and that continued critical and conceptual attention to the language employed in food security research and policy is warranted.

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ACHIEVING UN-SDG 13 IN NIGERIA: ROLES OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES

FUDMA Journal of Sciences ◽

10.33003/fjs-2021-0502-616 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 283-288

Author(s):

Auwal F. Abdussalam ◽

Abba A. Abukur

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Religious Leaders ◽

North Central ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Christian Communities ◽

Climate Action ◽

The Government ◽

Strongly Agree ◽

Almost All ◽

Descriptive Survey

Religious leaders have major roles to play in enabling the world's societies to take necessary actions to address climate change causes, impacts, and related issues effectively and ethically. This study investigates the roles they can play in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design, it involved 300 participants; 150 religious leaders each from the Muslim and Christian communities in the three geopolitical zones of northern Nigeria (northwest, northeast and north-central). A structured questionnaire was used in collecting information from these leaders. Simple descriptive and One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics were used in analyzing the obtained data. Findings reveal that religious leaders (Muslims and Christians) do not differ in their perception about the causes of climate change in Nigeria (F = 2.37, p = <0.05); and as well do not differ in their perception of its impact (F = 1.54, p = <0.01). Although almost all (94%) of the religious leaders involved in this study strongly agree that they have an important role to play in achieving the UN-SDG 13 target, they however varied in agreeing to pressure the government on exploring an all-inclusive solution (F = 19.56, p = >0.05). The study also reveals that 21% of the respondents have already started some work in addressing climate change, 75% show strong interest in commencing activities in the areas of awareness, formulating community-based adaptation strategies, and engaging policymakers

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The Church Climate Action: Identifying the Barriers and the Bridges

Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies ◽

10.1177/0265378820931890 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 222-241

Author(s):

George C Nche

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Strategic Communication ◽

Institutional Barriers ◽

Short Supply ◽

Address Climate Change ◽

Climate Action ◽

Church Climate ◽

The Church

For many decades, efforts are being channelled towards fostering effective robust church-based climate action across the globe. However, this desired action has unfortunately been in short supply. This has been attributed to some factors that serve as barriers to effective church-based climate action. In an extensive review, this article did not only identify these barriers but also the bridges or pathways out of these barriers/challenges. After a critical review of about 150 empirical studies with a few anecdotal literature, findings showed that beyond the theological barriers that are commonly referenced in many studies, the church also faces institutional barriers in their bid to address climate change. The biblical concept of stewardship, climate change awareness/knowledge creation, strategic communication and engagement, and strategic fundraising and mobilisation were found to be the bridges/pathways towards achieving a robust church-based climate action. Implications of findings for the church and research are discussed.

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Unearthing insights for climate change response in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

Global Sustainability ◽

10.1017/sus.2020.27 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Gail Hochachka

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Human Dimensions ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Transformative Change ◽

Global Issues ◽

World Community ◽

Climate Change Response ◽

The World ◽

Climate Action ◽

Change Response

Non-technical summary The COVID-19 pandemic can be considered an experiment forced upon the world community and, as such, responses to the pandemic can provide lessons about socio-ecological systems as well as processes of transformative change. What enabled responses to COVID-19 to be as effective as they were, right at a time when climate action is notably lagging behind what intergovernmental panels have called for? This paper examines key differences in the COVID-19 response compared to that of climate change, examining the ‘deeper’ human dimensions of these global issues. Unearthing insights into the responses to both issues provides important lessons for climate change engagement.

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On the Theoretical Conceptualisations, Knowledge Structures and Trends of Green New Deals

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132212529 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (22) ◽

pp. 12529

Author(s):

Zaheer Allam ◽

Ayyoob Sharifi ◽

Damien Giurco ◽

Samantha A. Sharpe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Web Of Science ◽

Knowledge Structures ◽

Science Mapping ◽

Intergovernmental Panel ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Global Issues ◽

Climate Action ◽

Mapping Techniques ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

The increasing impacts of climate change, coupled with the Greta Thunberg effect, the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, and varied environmental policy documents, are pointing to the need for urgent and cohesive climate action and mitigation frameworks. One potent solution, gaining global acceptance, is that of the Green New Deal (GND), positioned as a radical rethinking of political and economic structures in view of pushing sustainability at the forefront of national, regional, and global issues. With the model rapidly gaining ground in various geographies, and in different forms in view of contextualization needs, there is a need to better understand its evolution, knowledge structures, and trends. This paper thus sets forth to provide an understanding of the evolution and implementation of GND through a bibliometric analysis and science mapping techniques using VOSviewer and CiteSpace to identify the thematic focus of 1174 articles indexed in the Web of Science since 1995. To understand the thematic evolution of the field over time, we divided the study period into three sub-periods, namely 1995–2014, 2015–2019, and 2020–2021. These sub-periods were determined considering important milestones related to GNDs. Term co-occurrence analyses were then conducted to understand thematic focus and associated trends. Also, co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling were other methods applied to identify major sources, authors, publications, and countries that have made more contributions to the development of research on GNDs. The findings of this paper can help both researchers and policy makers understand the evolution and trends of GNDs to better formulate GNDs strategies and policies in accordance with varying needs and geographies.

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