Organizations like Healthcare without Harm, Partners in Green Health, The American Hospital Associations, and The Healthier Hospitals Initiative, are devoted to share idea to reduce waste, and give alternatives for energy and diversion of waste. Becoming sustainable in hospitals save money, contributes to improve patients result in health and improve employee engagement in the work field. Healthcare contributes more the economy than any other industry, therefore resulting to remarkable impact to a green economy. Nurses’ engagement in sustainability has a lot of power in influencing sustainability in hospitals. There are more than 2.9 million nurses in the U.S, and in the developing world, there is a urgent need of nurses. In the developing countries, nurses meet the number one strategy in meeting the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (Contributor 3p). According to the Center of Nursing Advocacy, there is a “vast gap between what nurses really do and what the public thinks they do”. A supply of nurses in developing communities can control population control, control of infectious diseases, improve maternal child health outcomes, and education for women (Contributor
Organizations like Healthcare without Harm, Partners in Green Health, The American Hospital Associations, and The Healthier Hospitals Initiative, are devoted to share idea to reduce waste, and give alternatives for energy and diversion of waste. Becoming sustainable in hospitals save money, contributes to improve patients result in health and improve employee engagement in the work field. Healthcare contributes more the economy than any other industry, therefore resulting to remarkable impact to a green economy. Nurses’ engagement in sustainability has a lot of power in influencing sustainability in hospitals. There are more than 2.9 million nurses in the U.S, and in the developing world, there is a urgent need of nurses. In the developing countries, nurses meet the number one strategy in meeting the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (Contributor 3p). According to the Center of Nursing Advocacy, there is a “vast gap between what nurses really do and what the public thinks they do”. A supply of nurses in developing communities can control population control, control of infectious diseases, improve maternal child health outcomes, and education for women (Contributor