Welcome to the Practice Forum!
All nurses practice, whether it is in clinical care, patient education, academia, research, entrepreneurialism, or the many other roles of nurses. The profession also has a performance standard which states “The registered nurse practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.” This means both preventing and reducing risk of environmental exposures for the patients and communities that nurses care for and addressing the environmental impacts caused by pollution from healthcare and nursing practice. This applies to all of us, no matter what practice setting or where the profession takes us.
The Practice Forum offers webinars and networking to help nurses achieve the standard of an environmentally safe and healthy practice. Nurses and nursing students can do this by: 1) Learning about health influences from environmental exposures so that we can care for patients and communities safely, 2) Reducing the environmental impacts of our own practice, from hospitals to universities to community settings, and 3) Better understanding the complex influences of the environment (and its degradation) on health, including climate, toxic chemicals, ecosystem disruption, and resource depletion.
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For more information about the ANHE Practice Forum, please contact info@envirn.org.
Resources for Nurses
Nurses for Healthy Environments podcast – Join ANHE Practice Work Group Chair Dr. Beth Schenk, a registered nurse and environmental health nurse champion, as she talks with nurses from around the country who are leading the profession in addressing environmental health issues. Every week you’ll be inspired by nurses making changes, big and small, to make our world healthier for everyone. Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on an episode!
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) & Practice Greenhealth (PGH) – Two leading organizations in healthcare sustainability, HCWH and PGH offer a ton of resources on how healthcare facilities can reduce their environmental footprint through the adoption and implementation of sustainability initiatives and practices.
Listen to Nurses for Healthy Environments Podcast
NHE 13 with Kathy Curtis