Greening Critical Care: Exploring Environmental Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities in the Emirati ICU Context.

This qualitative study seeks to explore the perspectives of Emirati ICU teams on environmental sustainability, identifying the challenges they face, and exploring potential opportunities to make healthcare practice more sustainable. The study thereby contributes to addressing the research gap on reducing impacts of resource-intensive care environments by exploring how ICU teams perceive and approach environmental sustainability in their practice. A descriptive qualitative design was utilized, involving semi-structured interviews with 19 ICU nurses and nurse managers and 5 ICU physicians.