Funding Opportunity
Health Care Without Harm is accepting proposals for a mini grant to support innovative efforts that expand and deepen the involvement of nurses in environmental health issues, promote advocacy activities and/or encourage those initiatives that showcase collaborative efforts between nurses and environmental organizations. Learn more about the HCWH Nurses Workgroup Mini-Grant Initiative.
Additional Online Resources
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Ask the Researcher: a BU SRP feature where researchers answer questions from the public.
EnviRN- University of Maryland EnviRN has a collection of presentations, resources, curricula, graduate student projects, case studies, and interventions for incorporating environmental health into nursing.
Environmental Health Perspectives: EHP is the premier journal in environmental health sciences. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and its content is free online.
EHP Science Education Program: This site offers a library of 91 high-quality science and interdisciplinary lessons based on selected articles and scientific research published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Health Care Without Harm- Environmental Health Resources for Nurses on the Web: A list of links and web resources compiled by Health Care Without Harm for nurses.
Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E):Organization seeking to create a national movement for environmental sustainability in health care.
In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development Project: GBPSR project addressing the influence of toxic on developmental disabilities.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project-Environment: Provides access to content of the School's most popular environmental courses.
NIEHS: Information for Health Professionals: These resources are provided to assist health care professionals who specialize in the prevention and treatment of environmental illnesses.
National Environmental Education Foundation: The NEEF website has a number of useful tools for nurses including pediatric environmental history forms, information on pesticides, and numerous publications.
Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design: This organization gathers and disseminates current information and research to inspire, educate and equip nurse leaders for their role in the design of healthcare facilities.
Online Environmental Toxicology Textbook (in Spanish) The resource was developed by the University of Arizona SBRP.
Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit: This toolkit, developed by the Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, includes many practical tools for preventing exposures to toxic chemicals to pediatric and family care practices.
Radon Toolkit for Health Care Professionals: This toolkit, developed by Children's Environmental Network, provides a thorough overview of strategies to educate patients about the dangers of radon.
Scorecard: a site providing you with in-depth pollution reports for your county, covering air, water, chemicals, and more.
Toxics Use Reduction Institute: TURI helps Massachusetts companies and communities find innovative ways to reduce toxic chemical use at the source. Their online tools include the Cleaner Solutions Database, TURI Library Catalog, TURAdata, and Web links at P2Gems.
University of Maryland School of Nursing’s Environmental Health Education Center: These reprintable articles cover a wide range of environmental health nursing topics.
Videos from the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments' and The University of Maryland School of Nursing's Our Environment, Our Health: A Nurse's Call of Action conference in June 2010.