TeamPeds Talks newest series, focused on Nurse Practitioner Leadership and Career Development, is brought to you by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. This series of podcasts includes inspiring and thought-provoking conversations with expert leaders in pediatric health care with a focus on advancing career development and leading change. This series is hosted by Dr. Andrea Kline-Tilford, NAPNAP’s Executive Board President.

Andrea Kline-Tilford, PhD, CPNP-AC is an Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with significant clinical experience in pediatric critical care and pediatric cardiac surgery. She is the NAPNAP Executive Board President and the Professional Issues Department Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Health Care. She is the co-editor of two books: Lippincott Certification Review: Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Cases in Pediatric Acute Care: Strengthening Clinical Decision Making. She has presented internationally on topics of pediatric acute care and pediatric advanced practice nursing, with many publications in these areas. She is an advocate for children and proud mother of two.

This episode's guests are Mary Chesney and Karen G. Duderstadt.

This episode of TeamPeds Talks features a conversation with two passionate pediatric-focused nurse practitioner advocates on planetary health and climate change and co-editors of the recent special issue of the Journal of Pediatric Health Care, Dr. Mary Chesney and Dr. Karen Duderstadt. This exciting episode explores the extensive impacts of climate change and planetary health on child health and strategies for pediatric-focused nurse practitioners to incorporate into practice, education, and personal life. Tune in to hear more about this call-to-action on climate change and planetary health. Future generations are depending on us.

Mary Chesney, PhD, APRN, CPNP, FAANP, FAAN, is a Clinical Professor and the Katherine R. & C. Walton Lillehei Chair in Nursing Leadership at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She is the past Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. Her teaching and scholarship focus on health policy, nursing leadership, and children’s health. Dr. Chesney’s past professional roles include serving as Health Policy Chair and President of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. She is a member of the Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment and Clinicians for Planetary Health. She has presented and published on a wide array of health policy topics and is an advocate for protecting children from harmful environmental exposures and the effects of climate change.
Karen G. Duderstadt PhD, RN is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. She is the past Director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program. She completed her PhD at UCSF in Nursing & Health Policy in 2006, and her research focused on Access to Care for low-income children. In clinical practice at the Children’s Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, she cared for the urban LatinX population of children and families. She is a founding member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) and has served on the Steering Committee and the Policy and Advocacy Committee working on environmental and chemical policy reform. She has presented and published on a wide range of child health policy topics and environmental health issues nationally including the impact of chemical policy on children’s health and the impact of environmental health policy on child health, as well as the health policy issues of access to care for children living in low-income families, the impact of childhood overweight and obesity on the health care system, and on tobacco policy and impact on youth.

Civic Engagement: How Our Nursing Voice Influences Child Health Policy

TeamPeds TalksBy National Association of Pediatric Nurse PractitionersOct 27, 2020