Environmental Health In Nursing – Jeanne Leffers (1)

Greening of Health Care Some health services organizations are working on “green” or environmentally friendly initiatives. Some organizations have launched green teams and developed sustainability departments. The Preface of the book Greening Health Care (Gerwig, 2015) briefly describes an exemplar hospital that is environmentally sustainable in terms of size, healthy landscaping, access to public transportation, connection with nature, eco-friendly building materials, recycling, conservation of energy and water, carbon neutrality, minimal use of toxic chemicals, and other strategies. These strategies are more in line with “health” than many or most sick care organizations.

In addition, in the Preface the author mentions that “the best thing we can do for the environment is to reduce our own health risks, or if we are healthy to stay that way (Gerwig, 2015, p. ix). It is true that most health problems are preventable; and if we change the focus of health services to a greater emphasis on evidence-based strategies to promote health, that should lead to a decrease in the need for sick care services that are financially costly, burdensome to patients and their families, and generally do significant harm to the environment.

Any type of industry can implement wellness initiatives that may benefit the employees and the bottom line of the company, while helping to reduce use of sick care services. Alarcon, W.A., Calvert, G.M., Blondell, J.M., Mehler, L.N., Sievert, J., Propect, M., et al. (2005). Acute illnesses associated with pesticides exposure at schools. Journal of the American Medical Association, 294(4), 455-465. American Industrial Hygiene Association. (2018). Discover industrial hygiene.

https://www.aiha.org/about-ih/Pages/ default.aspx American Nurses Association (ANA). (2021). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (4th ed.). American Nurses Association. American Nurses Association. (2010). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). American Nurses Association. American Nurses Association. (2007). ANA’s principles of environmental health for nursing practice with implementation strategies. American Nurses Association.

Baldi, I., Lebailly, P., Mohammed-Brahim, B., Letenneur, L., Dartiques, J., & Brochard, P. (2003). Neurodegenerative diseases and exposure to pesticides in the elderly. American Journal of Epidemiology, 157(5), 409-414. Belson, M., Kingsley, B., & Holmes, A.

Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN Kathryn P. Jackman-Murphy, EdD, MSN, RN, CHSE Jeanne Leffers, PhD, RN, FAAN Adelita G. Cantu, PhD, RN, FAAN Title: Environmental Health in Nursing, 3rd Edition Publisher: Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments www.enviRN.org Editors: Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Kathryn P. Jackman-Murphy, EdD, MSN, RN, CHSE, Jeanne Leffers, PhD, RN, FAAN, Adelita G. Cantu, PhD, RN, FAAN Acknowledgements: We would like to acknowledge all of our environmental health nursing leaders and experts who willingly contributed to the second edition of Environmental Health in Nursing, 3rd edition.

We also would like to acknowledge our reviewers and copy editor: Reviewers: Cara Cook, MS, RN, AHN-BC Director of Program, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN Executive Director, Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environments Claudia Smith, EdD, MPH, RN-BC Community/Public Health Nursing Educator and Consultant, retired Copy Editors: Eric Bullock Pixelpusherz Emily Hennessee, MPH Cover photos (clockwise starting at left, top row): ANHE nurse Lillian Jensen at a press conference at the EPA in Washington, DC; a new electric bus in Atlanta, GA; ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellows Felix J.

Roman Hernandez and Erika Alfaro; ANHE nurses (from right) Shanda Demorest, Rachel Kerr, and Teddie Potter at a climate protest in Minneapolis, MN; ANHE Environmental Health Nurse Fellow Mia McPherson; Indigenous nursing students at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia ISBN: 978-0-9998123-2-7 Copyright July 2023 by the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Page ii Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Dedication The third edition of Environmental Health in Nursing is dedicated to the 50 nurses leaders, representing many of the major US nursing organizations, nursing unions, and environmental health, who gathered together in December of 2008 in Oracle, AZ to plan the future of environmental health nursing. Through their courage and visionary work in Oracle, the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments was born and from that point on the environmental health movement within nursing grew exponentially.

Thank you for your amazing vision and leadership as we work together in support of healthier environments for all.

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