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How Hospital Environmental Managers Learn Compliance: A Learning Process Model, Victoria Anne Jas
How Hospital Environmental Managers Learn Compliance: A Learning Process Model, Victoria Anne Jas
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
Recent national media coverage of hospital mismanagement of hazardous materialsand waste has brought the practices of all hospitals into public scrutiny. Many people are amazed to learn that there is no national training or accreditation program for environmental management in hospitals. Hospitals are held to the same standards for hazardous materials management as are corporations in the industrial sector. Rural hospitals are particularly challenged because they have few resources. Overall, small hospitals need much improvement, but there are also examples of where individuals have done exemplary innovative work in improving environmental management. In this study I investigated the challenge rural …