Nurses are trusted, credible spokespeople on a range of public health issues, including environmental health, and see first-hand the effects that toxic chemicals can have on the health of their patients. You can have a tremendous impact when educating your patients, other caregivers, and policy makers. To help promote environmental health education, we've created a series of fact sheets specifically for nurses and other healthcare professionals.
Download Disease Prevention Initiatives (pdf, 284k)
Download Opportunity for Change.pdf (pdf, 327K)
Download Women's Health and the Environment (pdf, 421K)
Additional Resources
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
A
community of nurses committed to healthy people and healthy environments.
www.envirn.org
American Nurses Association
Information
center for national nursing organization.
www.nursingworld.org
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
A nonprofit
coalition effort dedicated to getting toxic chemicals out of our personal care products.
www.safecosmetics.org
Health Care Without Harm
Leading
the global movement for environmentally responsible health care.
www.noharm.org
The Luminary Project
An effort to
capture the illuminating stories of nurses' activities to improve human and environmental health
www.theluminaryproject.org
Practice GreenHealth
Membership
and networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community
that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices.
www.practicegreenhealth.org
Sustainable Hospitals
Provides
technical support for selecting products and work
practices that reduce
occupational and environmental hazards, maintain quality patient care, and
control costs.
www.sustainablehospitals.org
