RNnoHarm/Environmental Health
Policy Issues
Resources From ANA Other Resources

ANA Resources

• 2006 HOD Resolution: "Nursing Practice, Chemical Exposure and Right-to-Know"
  www.nursingworld.org/coeh/ChemicalExposureRes06.pdf
• ANA 2004 House of Delegates Resolution: Inappropriate Use of Antimicrobials in Agriculture
  www.nursingworld.org//2004hod/resantimicro.pdf

• ANA 2004 House of Delegates Resolution: Environmental Health Principles in Nursing Practice
  www.nursingworld.org/2004hod/resenviron.pdf

• ANA 1997 House of Delegates Resolution: Reduction of Health Care Production of Toxic Pollution
  www.nursingworld.org/coeh/rnnoharm/97hodpolicy.htm
• Moving Up the Hierarchy of Controls, Proposing a new chemicals policy
  www.nursingworld.org/ajn/2004/apr/health.htm

• The Precautionary Approach, Thinking Like a Nurse
  www.nursingworld.org/ajn/2004/apr/health.htm

Other Resources

• The Precautionary Principle
  A principle to prevent harm to the environment and to human health, is called the or the "precautionary principle".
  Precautionary Approach
• International Council of Nurses (ICN) Position Statements
  Medical Waste: Role of Nurses and Nursing
  www.icn.ch/psmedwaste.htm
  Universal Access to Clean Water
  www.icn.ch/pswater.htm
  Reducing Environmental and Lifestyle-related Health Hazards
  www.icn.ch/pshazards99.htm

• The Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals
  www.louisvillecharter.org