Including sustainability issues in nurse education: A comparative study of first year student nurses' attitudes in four European countries

Environmental responsibility in hospital care: Findings from a qualitative study

“…The wider topic of environmental responsibility should be included in nursing and medical curriculums to help health care professionals to understand the connection between their practices, resource scarcity and climate change. [2,45,46] Information needs to be up-to-date, [16] usable, interesting, reasonable and easy to understand. This relates to both formal and in-service training.…”

Nursing and the barriers to sustainable health care: a literature review

“…Polivka et al, (2012) suggest that a sense of professional responsibility towards AGW can be achieved through nurse education and also through continuing education for qualified staff. Richardson et al, (2016) and Goodman (2011) have successfully placed environmental sustainability on the undergraduate nursing curriculum agenda but the education of qualified staff has received less attention and is a key research priority according to Richardson et al, (2015). In order for any future education for qualified nurses to be effective it is imperative to understand what nurses think about healthcare associated AGW and environmental sustainability.…”

Predictors of Saudi nursing students’ attitudes towards environment and sustainability in health care

“…Moreover, this population's environment and sustainability awareness and the application of their principles may be context‐dependent (Richardson et al. ). The criteria included full‐time BSN students in their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years enrolled in courses with related learning experience in either hospital or community and can read, understand and write in English and received sufficient information about the study.…”