MNA: Workplace Issues

Environmental Health

Nursing ALERT ~ Warming IV Bags

Environmental Health Task Force - Guidance for Developing an Environmental Health Task Force

Be a part of the online community of nurses who are protecting people's health by improving the health of the environment. Share your story with the community of nurseswho are lighting the way toward safe hospitals, clean communities, and a healthy environment at www.TheLuminaryProject.org

A key focus of the Maryland Nurses Association is environmental health. The MNA has a long standing commitment to providing quality care in a quality environment. A major focus for the Association is to inform and educate the nursing community about related environmental hazards and provide them with the tools to effect change in their work sites and communities. To this end articles are published quarterly in The Maryland Nurse on environmental health and the Association offers continuing education in this area.

About MNA's Environmental Agenda

In August of 2003, MNA became the first state nurses association to become an H2E Champion for Change, a Hospital for a Healthy Environment initiative and is an active participant in Health Care without Harm, and the HCWH Nurses Workgroup. At the 2004 ANA House of Delegates Meeting, MNA submitted an Action Report on the Eliminating the Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture, which was passed by the house.

All articles posted on Environmental Health may be reprinted with credit as follows in other publication. This article is being reprinted with permission of The Maryland Nurses Association. Please forward two copies of any reprinted article to MNA, 21 Governors Court, Suite 195, Baltimore, MD 21244. Comment or Question can be directed to info@marylandrn.org

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Articles on Environmental Health

Cleaners, Disinfectants and Sterilants
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Problems Posted by Medical Waste Incineration
Mercury
Pass the Pollution Please (Pesticides, Dioxins, Antibiotics, Mercury)
Nurses Moving Boldly into the Environmental Health Policy Area
Polyvinyl Chloride
Genetically Engineered Food
A Fact Sheet for Nurses to Keep Antibiotics Working
Toxic Chemicals in IV Tubing
Green Meetings
Pioneering Environmental Health
Bring Order to Chemical Chaos
Cosmetics, What you need to know "A short article about 300,000,000 guinea pigs"
Dangers of Warming IV Bags
Healthy Food in Health Care.doc (Printed in April/May/June 2007 MARYLAND NURSE)

Reports

Asthma Mini Conference 2004
Executive Summary - Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture

Links for more information on Environmental Health

Health Care Without Harm www.noharm.org
Hospitals for A Healthy Environment (H2E) www.h2e-online.org

Study: Death, Disease
Caused by
MD Power Plant Pollution
http://www.thehastingsgroup.com/marylandrn/press_release.html