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

HCWH Nurses Workgroup

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. The additional resources on this page may be helpful as you continue your work as an environmental health activist.

Nurses As Environmental Health Activists

"I drafted the first lead abatement safety standard in the state of California. Now lead-based paint removal in San Francisco must be safely contained so lead dust is not aerosolized."

— Catherine Dodd, PhD, RN, FAAN

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Take Action

Antibiotic resistance continues to be a growing problem. Sign the Petition to Protect Antibiotics.
Protect Antibiotics Toolkit: Help phase out the non-therapeutic use of medically important antibiotics.
The Luminary Project captures stories of nurses who improve human health by improving health of the environment. Key Resources include the Nurses' Toolkit on rBGH-free Dairy

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

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