The Nurse's Role in Health Care Waste Management
Nurses play a key role in waste management at any facility in both their management and direct care functions. Any program for improving waste segregation, reducing the cost of waste management, and practicing pollution prevention must first consider how to enlist their enthusiastic support for the design and implementation of such a program.
Resources
The Nightingale Institute for Health and the Environment was created to enhance the role of all health professionals in reducing the environmental impact of health care delivery and raise the awareness of the links between quality of health and quality of the environment.
Articles
Pollution Prevention for Nurses. Hollie Shaner. Vermont Registered Nurse, Vol. 62 No.