The environmental awareness of nurses as environmentally sustainable health care leaders: a mixed method analysis.

Background: People worldwide are concerned with the possibility of climate change, microplastics, air pollution, and extreme weather affecting human health. Countries are implementing measures to reduce environmental impacts. Nurses play a vital role, primarily through Green Teams, in the process of promoting sustainable practices and minimizing the environmental footprint of health care facilities.

Nurses as agents for achieving environmentally sustainable health systems: A bibliometric analysis.

Aim: To analyse the current scientific knowledge and research lines focused on environmentally sustainable health systems, including the role of nurses.

Background: There seem to be differences between creating interventions focused on environmentally sustainable health systems, including nurses, and the scarcity of research on this topic, framed on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Methods: A bibliometric analysis was carried out, via three databases (Web of Science, Scopus and Pubmed), and the guideline recommendations were followed to select bibliometric data.

Validation of the Spanish Version of the Questionnaire on Environmental Awareness in Nursing (NEAT).

Environmental awareness of the ecological problems caused by this climate crisis and its impact on global health has been growing globally. Nurses are health care agents that usually hurt the environment and contribute to the unsustainability of the care system. Such behavior is perpetuated without the nurses’ awareness and is even magnified by the current pandemic, jeopardizing the health systems and the Sustainable Development Goals.