How can nurses provide the best care for LGBT+ patients?
Key points
- Over 100,000 LGBT people work for the NHS and yet the specific needs of gay people are often overlooked in the provision of healthcare
- LGBT people face additional barriers to healthcare, which means they often present later in disease and experience poor levels of care while in treatment
- Nurses must ensure all patients are treated with respect and any discriminatory behaviour must be challenged and addressed
- One of the best ways to deconstruct the harmful stereotyping that trans people face is to learn and be able to define key terms
- Inclusive spaces are important for making LGBT people feel at ease in clinical settings, and can be achieved either on an organisational level or from individuals
Introduction
Over 100,000 lesbian, gay and bisexual people work for the NHS and yet “the specific needs of gay people are too often overlooked in the provision of healthcare” (Stonewall, 2021). Nurses
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Jasmine Walter
Jasmine Walter is a Content Editor at Mark Allen Group, working across a range of healthcare journals. She worked at an open access scientific publishing company for three years before joining MAG. She now writes and edits content for BJN Inform.
