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Nurses as Environmental Health Activists
Nurses play a key role in the Health Care Without Harm campaign. As frontline health care workers, nurses have a unique role as champions within health care facilities, creating positive environmental change from the inside. The HCWH Nurses Workgroup represents a community of nurses who are dedicated to implementing environmentally responsible practices in their hospitals. The workgroup has designed a Nurses Welcome Kit with more information about how to get involved. For updates from the workgroup, please see the minutes of monthly conference calls and for the first years of the NWG activities, see archived issues of an early newsletter, the Nurses Stethoscope.
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 Join HCWH Nurses Workgroup
Nurses in the News
HCWH Nurses Workgroup Mini-Grant Initiative
Nurse Member Organizations of HCWH
Environmental Health Resources for Nurses on the Web
An overview of key web-based resources for nurses on environmental health issues
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, Healthy Environments
Materials and resources on a nurse's role in assessing and addressing the health risks to mothers and babies from environmental exposures.
Synergies: Nurses and H2E (5MB ppt - approximate download time: 2 min.)
The Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E) program provides tools and resources that help nurses and other health care professionals in their pollution prevention efforts. For more information, see the H2E website.
NWG Presentations and Audios
These PowerPoint presentations and audios were originally presented to the members of the Nurses Work Group during its monthly conference calls.
The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health is an effort to capture the illuminating stories of nurses' activities to improve human health by improving the health of the environment.
Join HCWH Nurses Workgroup
The Nurses Workgroup serves as a source of support and technical assistance for the efforts of nurses nationwide, and provides a much-needed opportunity for concerned nurses to network and share resources with their peers. Every month, the Nurses Workgroup holds a free national conference call. The call is open to all nurses who are interested in the mission of Health Care Without Harm and who want to engage in the work of the campaign. We welcome you to join us and "meet" nurses from all over the country who are changing the business of health care by making it healthier and safer for all. To join the next nurses' conference call, contact Karen Ballard.
Nurses in the News
Nurses' chemical exposures on job may contribute to health problems, EWG, HCWH, ANA, UMD, December 2007
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN), Environmental Health: Important Choices for a Greener World
Overview & Summary
Environmentally Safe Health Care Agencies: Nursing’s Responsibility, Nightingale’s Legacy
Healthy Buildings: Impact on Nurses and Nursing Practice
Healthy Choices: Transforming Our Hospitals into Environmentally Healthy and Safe Places
Home Environmental Health Risks
Global Warming: A Public Health Concern
Regulatory, Institutional, and Market-Based Approaches Towards Achieving Comprehensive Chemical Policy Reform
AORN Releases new publication – A Guidance Document on Environmental Responsibility, November 2006
New Survey on Nurses' Health and Chemical Exposures, HCWH, May 2005
Web Project Enlightens Nurses About Environmental Issues, NurseZone.com, May 2005, Christina Orlovsky
Moving Up the Hierarchy of Controls: Proposing a New Chemicals Policy, American Journal of Nursing, March 2005, Susan Wilburn, MPH, RN, BSN
Do No Harm? Health Care and the Environment, The Australian Journal of Nursing, February 2005, Fiona Armstrong
Nursing the Environment, World of Irish Nursing, February 2005, Michael McKeon
Pioneering the Environmental Health Frontier, The Maryland Nurse, February 2005, Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN
Protecting Patients from Toxins in Plastics (pdf), American Journal of Nursing, April 2002, Susan Wilburn, MPH, RN, BSN; Ann Melamed, MS, RN, Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN
Environmental Health in the Health Care Setting (pdf), The American Nurse, March/April 2002, Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN
RNs Lead Effort to Deliver Healthcare without Harm, Nursing Spectrum, September 2001, Carrie Farella, RN, MA
Environmental Florence Nightingales: Nursing's New Front Line (pdf), Environmental Health Perspectives, March 2001, Julie Wakefield
Methyl Mercury Poisoning — A Public Health Menace, Self-Study Module, Nursing Spectrum, Rosalyn Feller Scherf, RNC
HCWH Nurses Workgroup Mini-Grant Initiative
The Nurses Workgroup Mini-Grant Initiative is designed to support innovative efforts to expand and deepen the involvement of nurses in environmental health issues, to promote advocacy activities and to encourage those initiatives that showcase collaborative efforts between nurses and environmental organizations. The HCWH Mini Grant program welcomes all applications for funding from members of the HCWH Nurses Workgroup, participants of "RN No Harm" workshops or HCWH mini-grant funded workshops, ANA Constituent Member Associations, Specialty Nursing Organizations, nursing unions, schools of nursing, nurse participants of Clean Med, Beacons and Luminaries of The Luminary Project, and HCWH Workgroups that wish to develop or expand their relationships with nurses.
There have been eight previous opportunities to apply for a mini-grant since the Nurses Workgroup mini-grant project was initiated in 2004. The awards, which are offered twice a year, currently range from $500 to $3,000 and are for one-year only. Learn more about projects that have received funding to date:
Round 1 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 2 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 3 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 4 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 5 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 6 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 7 Grant Recipients (pdf)
Round 8 Grant Recipients (pdf) To be announced
The availability of a new round of mini-grants will be announced in the fall of 2008. Please check this site for an announcement. If you have any questions about your eligibility to submit a proposal, please contact Brenda M. Afzal, RN, MS at bafzal@son.umaryland.edu or by phone at 410-706-1778.
NWG Presentations and Audios
These PowerPoint presentations and audios were originally presented to the members of the Nurses Work Group during its monthly conference calls. Announcements for these conference calls are sent via the NWG listserv. If you wish to be added to the listserv, please send your name, address, telephone and fax numbers, affiliation and email address to kballard@nyc.rr.com.
rBGH in Dairy Products (11/13/2007)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Audio recording of conference call (mp3) Download may take up to two minutes.
Fragrance and Health (5/8/2007)
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Audio recording of conference call (mp3) Download may take up to two minutes.
Nanotechnology (3/13/2007)
PowerPoint Presentation (ppt)
Audio recording of conference call (mp3) Download may take up to two minutes.
Nanotechnology Letter
Nanotechnology Puzzle
Grant Writing Basics (1/9/2007)
PowerPoint Presentation (ppt)
Audio recording of conference call (mp3) Download may take up to two minutes.
Bugs, Drugs & Arsenic: Everything You Want to Know about Meat Products and Food Additives (11/14/2006)
Audio recording of conference call (mp3) Download may take up to two minutes.
Breast Milk Contamination (9/12/2006)
PowerPoint Presentation (ppt)
Audio recording of conference call (mp3) Download may take up to two minutes.
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