Nurses—Making a Difference in Global Health
GOAL 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Read how nurses around the world are advocating for and helping achieve this goal.
Nurse luminaries light the way to improved environmental health
In 2005, Health Care Without Harm, a global coalition of nearly 500
organizations working to protect health by reducing health-care-generated
pollution, launched The Luminary Project (TLP) to spotlight stories about nurses
who advocate for safe hospitals, clean communities and children born without
toxic chemicals in their bodies. For the past year, I have worked as a nurse
consultant on The Luminary Project and have been touched by the stories told on
the project’s Web site, many of them about members of the Honor Society of
Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. I would like to highlight the work of
just a few of these environmental heroes. Perhaps their stories and the
resources available on the site will inspire other nurses to get involved. Read
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Additional stories of nurses who are helping to ensure environmental
sustainability: