NLN 2022 Education Summit Opens Registration with Public Health Advocate Dr. Barbara Sattler to Present Keynote on Human & Planetary Healing
NLN 2022 Education Summit Opens Registration with Public Health Advocate Dr. Barbara Sattler to Present Keynote on Human & Planetary Healing
Nursing Education’s Top Event to be Held September 28-30 at The Mirage in Las Vegas
Washington, DC — The National League for Nursing proudly announces the opening of registration for the 2022 NLN Education Summit, set for September 28-30 at The Mirage in Las Vegas. This year’s theme, Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Leading the Way Through Education, Practice, and Policy, will focus on the vital need for nurses and nurse educators to respond to and proactively address climate change, health equity, and sustainability in managing global health and wellness. Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN, founder of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, will kick off the conference with her Keynote Address, Human and Planetary Healing.
“At a time when addressing the impact of climate change is increasingly important to our nation and the world, the National League for Nursing is excited to welcome to our Summit stage this pioneering expert on the intersection of health and the environment,” said NLN Chair Kathleen Poindexter, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, interim associate dean of academic affairs at Michigan State University in Lansing, of Dr. Sattler, who is also an emeritus professor in the School of Nursing and Health Professions at University of San Francisco. “We look forward to the knowledge and wisdom she will share, as the League serves as a catalyst for nurse educators to integrate climate change and its impact on health equity into nursing curricula.”
In exploring the role of nursing in preventative medicine and promoting the ecological health of our environment, Dr. Sattler’s talk will illuminate how these two objectives are inextricably connected. “There are a great many ways in which our current crisis of chronic diseases can be related to the same causes that are also destroying ecosystems,” she said. She will call on nurses to use their collective power, as the “most trusted voice in health care,” to create an effective advocacy initiative for primary disease prevention and planetary healing.
An international leader in environmental health and nursing, Dr. Sattler sits on the board of the organization she founded. The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments helps integrate environmental health, including climate change, into nursing education, practice, research, and policy/advocacy. Her career highlights include service as an advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Child Health Protection and to the National Library of Medicine for informational needs of health professionals on environmental health. She has been the principal investigator on a host of grants from the Health Resources Service Administration, the National Institute of Environmental Health Science, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the EPA. Supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Sattler aided the distribution of local, sustainable, healthy foods to hospitals in the state of Maryland. The author of Environmental Health and Nursing, as well as multiple peer-reviewed published articles, Dr. Sattler earned a Master’s of Public Health and doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
Another highlight of the 2022 Summit will be the culmination of the NLN’s signature initiative, Year of the Nurse Educator. Announced in January, this year-long program has celebrated the unique contributions of nursing education to public health and spotlighted careers in nursing education, revealed in personal stories of teaching and mentoring. In a special ceremony during the Summit, up to five nurse educators will be honored with the Nurse Educator of the Year Award, selected from nominees by peers and students.
“The NLN Education Summit is the highlight of our year, and this year is no exception given the importance of celebrating the contributions of nurse educators to our health care system,” said NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN. “I am always excited for this opportunity to reconnect with colleagues as we learn from one another and renew our focus on and passion for advancing the health of the nation and the global community through nursing education. Plus, this year, there will be fun in the sun in Las Vegas, a really welcome respite after the challenging past two years of pandemic lockdown and exhaustion, particularly for our nurse educators as well as for our colleagues on the clinical front lines of COVID care.”
For more information and to register, visit Summit.NLN.org.About the National League for Nursing
Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its nearly 45,000 individual and 1,100 institutional members, comprising nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education and health care organizations. Learn more at NLN.org.