Welcome Nurses!
"Nurses have come a long way in a few short decades. In the past our attention focused on physical, mental and emotional healing. Now we talk of healing your life, healing the environment and healing the planet."
~Lynn Keegan, 1994
According to the World Health Organization, “the physical environment is an important determinant of health” (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2004, Key determinant 6: Physical environment). Simply put, in order to sustain health, it is important to foster a healthy environment.
Practicing nurses, however, are in the delicate position of preserving clients’ health with powerful drugs that may erode the environment. As a by-product of improving health, health care waste must be produced, however there must also be emphasis on controlling the waste in such as way that it minimally impacts the environment, and subsequently health.
In the hopes of raising awareness about the impact of health care on the environment (health care waste and pharmaceutical disposal), this website was created. It presents the concept of "environmentally-senstivie nursing".
This website was developed by fourth year nursing students from Kwantlen University College in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
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