This theoretical work emphasizes the importance attached by nurses, about environmental questions, specifically environmental pollution, for planning and implementing health actions in maternal and child health. Some pollutant effects on fertility, gestational results and growth and child development are pointed out. The knowledge of nurses is questioned about these aspects and considerations are made about the necessity of going thoroughly into the research process to identify the environmental risk factor for reproduction and health of the mother-child binome. Knowledge acquisitions could be a strategy in order that attention to environment as a whole and its influences, including the human-ecosystem inter-relationships, should not be any more part of discourse and should change into an actual support for nurses by adoption of new health care. Finally, the study emphasizes the necessity for the nurse to participate in a multidisciplinary health team, in which the questions of health risks due to environmental questions are met.
Nursing; Maternal and child health; Environment