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You might want to start with understanding what sustainability in nursing could look like. See the following chapters in books and look at the journal articles and websites they have listed in their references at the end of the chapter for further resources:
Books in Clinical Key
Fields, L & Bowldler, S. (2026). Sustainable healthcare. In C. Douglas, G. Rebeiro, D. Waters, T. Moroney, & J. Crisp, J. Potter & Perry’s fundamentals of nursing (Australian and New Zealand 7th edition., pp. 112-128). Elsevier. (In Clinical Key)
A summary from the above chapter follows:
Sustainability strategies for nurses to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint include :
Usher, K. & Tutticci, N. (2026). Nursing and the environment. In D. Jackson, A. Bonner, J. Bloomfield, & J. Daly (Eds.). Contexts of nursing : an introduction (7th ed., pp. 339-356). Elsevier.(In Clinical Key).
Websites:
Climate Action Nurses https://www.climateactionnurses.org/
World Health Organization (2023) Operational framework for building climate resilient and low carbon health systems
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (n.d.) Climate Change - ANHE : Overview of climate change and health
Articles
Brenndorfer, M. (2020). Nurses are crucial in the fight against climate change. Nursing New Zealand, 26(9), 22-45.
Levett-Jones, T., Bonnamy, J., Cornish, J., Correia Moll, E., Fields, L., Moroney Oam, T., Richards, C., Tutticci, N., & Ward, A. (2024). Celebrating Australian nurses who are pioneering the response to climate change: a compilation of case studies. Contemporary Nurse, 60(3), 234-246.
Shelby, L. A. (2024). Developing a Green Nursing Practice in a Profession That Contributes to Climate Change: One Nurse’s Journey. AACN Advanced Critical Care, 35(4), 310–319
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