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Sustainable nursing actions in health service waste management: a scoping review
Ana Clara Dantas1, Bárbara Ebilizarda Coutinho Borges1, Anna Karla Regis de Azevedo2
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Objective:
to map evidence in the scientific literature about sustainable nursing actions in health service waste management.
Methods:
a scoping review, carried out in the Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE/PubMed), Embase, Google Scholar® databases and manual search in reference lists. The study was structured according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews recommendations.
Results:
the final sample consisted of 18 studies, most of which were published in 2023, in Europe, in English, with a quantitative approach and classified as level V of evidence.
Conclusions:
the sustainable nursing actions in waste management that most prevailed in the sample were related to material reduction, recycling and reuse. A diagram was created with the main sustainable nursing practices in health service waste management.
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