Leading the Health Care Sector to Sustainability
Practice Greenhealth, HCWH, and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative describe strategies and resources for bringing sustainable practices to the health care sector. enlarge video
Practice Greenhealth, HCWH, and the Healthier Hospitals Initiative describe strategies and resources for bringing sustainable practices to the health care sector. enlarge video
Nurses in the News
Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN)
- Overview & Summary: Environmental Health: Important Choices for a Greener World
- 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
Other Resources
- Nurses' chemical exposures on job may contribute to health problems, EWG, HCWH, ANA, UMD, December 2007 (pdf)
- Regulatory, Institutional, and Market-Based Approaches Towards Achieving Comprehensive Chemical Policy Reform (pdf)
- AORN Releases new publication — A Guidance Document on Environmental Responsibility, November 2006 (pdf)
- New Survey on Nurses' Health and Chemical Exposures, HCWH, May 2005 (pdf)
- Web Project Enlightens Nurses About Environmental Issues, NurseZone.com, May 2005, Christina Orlovsky (pdf)
- Moving Up the Hierarchy of Controls: Proposing a New Chemicals Policy, American Journal of Nursing, March 2005, Susan Wilburn, MPH, RN, BSN (pdf)
- Do No Harm? Health Care and the Environment, The Australian Journal of Nursing, February 2005, Fiona Armstrong (pdf)
- Nursing the Environment, World of Irish Nursing, February 2005, Michael McKeon (pdf)
- Pioneering the Environmental Health Frontier, The Maryland Nurse, February 2005, Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN (pdf)
Healing Garden Grows in Bhopal
The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
