More than 150 nurses from across Canada with an interest in environmental health are connecting through Canadian Nursing Association (CNA) to network with their peers, share resources and benefit from discussing colleagues' experiences with nursing and environmental health. A new CNA Emerging Group has formed - the Canadian Nursing Environmental Health Group. These nurses are actively involved in addressing exposures to environmental hazards in the home, school, community and workplace. Check out what they are doing to engage patients, students, colleagues and Canadians on environmental health issues. Get inspired by nurses in action! Please note that items are posted in the language they were submitted to CNA.

This group put together a toolkit for nurses across the country to encourage them to weave environmental health issues into their practice, and provide them with tools to do so. The results are up on the CNA website with focus in three main areas: Greening the Health Sector, Nurses and Environmental Health, and Climate Change. The background papers, podcasts and PowerPoint presentations present sound information and ideas for action to reduce environmental exposures and make nursing practice less environmentally harmful.

See the web site http://www.cna-nurses.ca/CNA/issues/environment/default_e.aspx for more info.