Challenging healthcare economics and technology to save the environment.
Nurses as frontline healthcare personnel can become strong advocates for a healthy environment, and the place to start is in the healthcare setting itself. The growing environmental awareness behooves nurses to address many professional practices that harm the environment. Below, how nurses in South Australia are questioning a hospital's practices and choice of technology.
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Nursing Faculty, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
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