Abstract
AimThis review identifies and synthesizes literature related to the awareness of and attitudes towards sustainability and climate change from the perspective of nursing students and educators.DesignA systematic integrative review.MethodsThe review will follow the five stages outlined by Whittemore and Knafl: problem identification, literature search, data evaluation, data analysis and presentation. The data analysis will be based on inductive content analysis developed by Elo and Kyngäs. Principles of the Cochrane Collaboration and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) will also inform the review process.ResultsThis review will offer insights about sustainability and climate change in relation to an important target population: the future nursing workforce and those educating its members. Findings might inform curriculum development, potentially contributing to a nursing profession that looks after the health of the planet and the health of the population inhabiting it.
Highlights
Climate change is said to be the most urgent public health threat of the 21st century (Costello et al, 2009)
This integrative review will seek to comprehensively synthesize the existing body of research related to the awareness of and attitudes towards sustainability and climate change from the perspective of nursing and educators
Some higher education institutes across Europe and elsewhere are already incorporating sustainability in nursing education (Richardson et al, 2016), Lopez- Medina et al (2019) note that knowledge about sustainability and climate change principles is largely absent from nursing curricula
Summary
Climate change is said to be the most urgent public health threat of the 21st century (Costello et al, 2009). In 2015, the United Nations produced the Sustainable Development Goals as a call for action to end poverty, protect the planet and establish peace and prosperity for all (United Nations, 2015). The International Council of Nursing (2018) has called for nurses to act as leaders in building climate resilient health systems by, for example adopting sustainable healthcare practices, engaging in health and climate research and developing climate-informed health programmes. Delivering healthcare contributes to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, the use of toxic materials and the production of vast amounts of waste (Griggs et al, 2017; Richardson et al, 2016). Sustainability in nursing is defined in this work in accordance with their concept analysis, which concluded that: Nursing Open. Sustainability in nursing is defined in this work in accordance with their concept analysis, which concluded that: Nursing Open. 2021;00:1–6.
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