Sustainable Practices in Nursing Education
A special issue of Nursing Reports (ISSN 2039-4403). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing Education and Leadership".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2025 | Viewed by 161
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental health; education for sustainable development; planetary health; nursing students; climate change; psychometry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Universities constitute important dynamic agents of change for sustainability, as they train professionals who influence their environment through their knowledge, skills and attitudes. Thus, education pertaining to sustainable development is key for nursing education since nurses are in a privileged position to promote the health benefits of living more sustainably. Nursing curricula must include the links between health and the environment to achieve planetary health. A nurse should possess knowledge about clinical waste management, resource efficiency, carbon footprint reduction, and health inequalities to devise solutions for future healthcare challenges. It is particularly important to know how to manage environmental risks in vulnerable populations such as children, older people and pregnant women. For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of articles on experiences of including environmental health in the nursing degree curriculum; methodological and pedagogical approaches to training in environmental health competencies in nursing students; methodological designs for training in low-environmental-impact nursing care; the validation of instruments for the assessment of environmental health competencies in nursing students; and an assessment of the environmental awareness of nursing students in their clinical practice training.
Dr. Cristina Álvarez-García
Dr. Maria Dolores López Franco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- competency-based education
- curriculum
- education for sustainable development
- environmental health
- health promotion
- nursing education
- planetary health
- sustainable development
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