Sustainable Healthcare: Building Greener Clinical Practices
Gain practical strategies to reduce environmental impact in healthcare settings and build more sustainable clinical practices.
Duration
4 weeksWeekly study
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How it works
Sustainable Healthcare: Building Greener Clinical Practices
Build sustainable practices in modern healthcare
Healthcare systems are under increasing pressure to become more environmentally and economically sustainable.
As climate change and resource scarcity intensify, healthcare professionals must adapt their practices to protect both patients and the planet.
This course offers a practical, forward-thinking approach to sustainable healthcare, empowering you to make changes that matter.
Understand sustainability in the healthcare ecosystem
Begin by exploring the broader ecosystem of sustainable healthcare. Learn about key stakeholders, regulatory frameworks, and global health trends driving the shift toward greener clinical practices.
You’ll examine how issues like waste, emissions, and chemical use affect hospital operations, patient outcomes, and community health.
Apply sustainable solutions to healthcare operations
Next, you’ll discover actionable strategies to implement sustainable practices in your day-to-day work.
From optimising resource use and improving waste management to reducing transportation emissions and energy consumption, you’ll gain practical tools that enhance clinical efficiency while minimising environmental impact.
Lead change with strategy and collaboration
Explore how hospitals and clinics can foster a culture of sustainability. You’ll delve into examples of successful initiatives, analyse real-world case studies, and engage with your peers to design a sustainability strategy tailored to your healthcare environment.
This collaborative, hands-on approach ensures you’re ready to lead change in your workplace.
Syllabus
Week 1
Foundations of Sustainable Healthcare
Welcome to the course
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the sustainable healthcare, offering insights, practical knowledge, and actionable strategies to integrate sustainability into various aspects of healthcare practice.
Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare
By the end of this activity, learners will be better able to define sustainable healthcare and the importance of this approach.
Issues on sustainable healthcare (general and specific)
By the end of this activity, learners will be better able to identify the general and the specific pressing issues regarding sustainability in healthcare.
Week 2
Collaboration for Impact
Sustainable Healthcare ecosystem
By the end of this activity, learners will be able to explain why sustainable healthcare is not the responsibility of a single actor and requires a cross-sectoral collaboration.
Collaboration in practice
By the end of this activity, learners will be better able to understand how collaboration between different actors is reflected in the practice of sustainable healthcare.
Week 3
Sustainability in Action: Hospital and Clinic Models
Sustainable healthcare models
By the end of this activity, learners will learn about the on-the-ground practices, the reductions in emissions and the environmental impact those solutions create for hospitals.
Week 4
Shaping Tomorrow - Trends and the Future of Sustainable Healthcare
Sustainable healthcare trends
By the end of this activity, learners will be better able to implement sustainability activities or strategies by learning from practical examples from real life.
The future of sustainable healthcare
By the end of this activity, you will be able to identify drivers of change and their dynamics at macro level as well as applying practical tools at the micro level.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Develop a broad understanding of the sustainable healthcare ecosystem and their role within it.
- Explore corporate social responsibility and environmental policies impacting the healthcare sector.
- Identify key sustainability challenges in hospitals, clinics, and medical supply chains.
- Develop practical strategies for implementing sustainable practices in patient care.
- Explain how to reduce emissions, optimize resource use, and implement energy-efficient solutions in healthcare environments.
Who is the course for?
This course is for healthcare professionals – nurses, doctors, and hospital staff – who want to integrate sustainability into daily clinical practice and operations.
Who will you learn with?
Who developed the course?
Skåne Care
As the international gateway to Sweden’s public healthcare system, Skåne Care connects global partners with top-quality healthcare solutions and opportunities for professional growth. Skåne Care is part of the Swedish public healthcare system and is governed by the Regional Council of Skåne in southern Sweden.
Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare
The Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare is a pioneering network committed to driving sustainability within the global healthcare sector.
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Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
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Buy this course
$109/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Start learning today
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Try this course - with limits
- Limited to 4 weeks
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