L073026 First, Do No Harm: Transforming Pediatric Care for a Sustainable Future - A Film Festival
As healthcare professionals, our primary commitment is to heal. Yet, the global healthcare sector accounts for nearly 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions—inadvertently contributing to the very environmental crises that threaten our patients. Join your colleagues from across the organization for a curated mini film festival and panel discussion exploring this profound ethical challenge and discovering how frontline staff can drive systemic change.
We will begin with the animated documentary Do No Harm which takes us inside the hospital walls, sharing the stories of frontline clinicians—including a NICU nurse—who successfully fought to eliminate hidden toxins and plastics from their units. Next, Focus - Climate, reframes climate change as an immediate public health and equity crisis that disproportionately burdens vulnerable populations. One Health provides an inspiring roadmap, demonstrating how a hospital team utilized the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network to protect local ecosystems while delivering high-quality patient care. Finally, we expand our lens with The Climate and Us: What Indigenous Knowledge Can Teach Us About Land Stewardship in the Arctic. This powerful short film challenges Western medicine's traditional separation of huma health from environmental health. By exploring the concept of biocultural restoration, it demonstrates how ancient Arctic traditions of reciprocity and land stewardship offer vital models for modern planetary health—reminding us that the land itself is an essential partner in pediatric healing and community resilience.
Following the films, an interdisciplinary panel of your peers will discuss how we can translate these global stories into local actions. Together, we will explore how reducing our ecological footprint, eliminating clinical toxins, and advocating for environmental justice can foster deep resilience for our patients, our community, and ourselves.
Brought to you by the Healthy Work Environment Professional Governance Council, Ethics, CPDP, Equity & Inclusion, and the Office for Environmental Sustainability & Safety
Sponsored by the Nurses of Color ERG and Nursing Governance
Target Audience
All Children's Minnesota staff.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze the ethical conflict highlighted in Do No Harm, evaluating how healthcare sector pollution and emissions inadvertently impact pediatric and community health
- Connect the systemic climate hazards to the localized physical and mental health vulnerabilities of pediatric patients
- Examine the real-world solutions to identify how frontline hospital staff - from nursing to environmental services - can drive operational sustainability
- Identify actionable opportunities within our own pediatric care environments to reduce waste, eliminate toxins, and advocate for sustainable health equity
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 5:00 p.m. | Acknowledgement & Introduction |
| 5:10 p.m. | Do No Harm documentary |
| 5:15 p.m. | Reflection Activity |
| 5:30 p.m. | Focus - Climate | Health Care without Harm - Global (short films) |
| 5:37 p.m. | Redesign Activity |
| 6:00 p.m. | Break |
| 6:15 p.m. | "One Health": A documentary about Health Care Without Harm and the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network |
| 6:30 p.m. | Repercussion Activity |
| 6:50 p.m. | The Climate and Us: What indigenous knowledge can teach us about land stewardship in the Arctic |
| 7:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
| 8:00 p.m. | Conclusion |
*Agenda may be subject to change
The program will take place at the Children's Business Campus, Canteen
- Park in the employee ramp and enter through the employee entrance. If you do not have badge access, please use the phone located in the atrium and call security to let you in.
- After entering, take the stairway up to the main level. Once at the top of the stairs, follow the signage.
- PLEASE prepare to arrive 10 minutes prior to start time as we will promptly start the session at 5:00 p.m.
FACILITATORS & PANELISTS:
Michael French, BSN, RN, Patient Care Supervisor, Children's Minnesota
Angelica Walton, DNP, RN, CCRN, Director of the Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, Director, Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice, University of Minnesota
PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Kris Catrine, MD, Medical Director, Department of Pain, Palliative Care & Integrative Medicine
Denise Deutsch, Manager, Environmental Sustainability & Safety
Sara Dolan, MN, RN, BA, PHN, Clinical Practice Specialist, Inpatient Health
Michael French, BSN, RN, Patient Care Supervisor
LaAnna Johnson, BSN, RN, PHN, CCRN-L QA, Clinical Equity Education Specialist
Shika Kalevor, MBE, RN, HEC-C, Clinical Ethicist
Stevie Lien, LICSW, Social Worker
Kim Maxa, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT:
It is our intent that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts. It is not assumed any potential conflicts will have an adverse impact on these presentations. It remains for the audience to determine whether the speaker’s outside interest may reflect a possible bias, either the exposition or the conclusions presented.
Planning committee members and presenter(s) have disclosed they have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing selling re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients and have disclosed that no conflict of interest exists with the presentation/educational event.

Accreditation Statement:
In support of improving patient care, Children’s Minnesota is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Children’s Minnesota takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific interest of its accredited continuing education events.
Credit Statement:
AMA
Children’s Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent to their participation in the activity.
ANCC
Children's Minnesota designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 ANCC nursing contact hour. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACPE
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs will have their attendance reported in the CPE Monitor for ACPE credits provided they have entered their NABP-ePID and birth month and day where indicated when setting up their profile.
This program offers 2.5 contact hours of continuing education. Most medical professional organizations accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. It is the individual’s responsibility to determine whether an education activity meets the continuing education requirements of their respective licensures and/or professional boards. Go to your respective organization’s website for more detailed information regarding credit requirements.
Available Credit
- 2.50 ACPE
- 2.50 ACPE Pharmacy technician
- 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.50 ANCC
- 2.50 Attendance
- 2.50 Approved AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
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