Nursing pre-licensure and graduate education for LGBTQ health: A systematic review

Nurses may struggle to provide competent nursing care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (LGBTQ) individuals without foundational training guided by best practices. Seminal work underscores the urgency for nursing programs to codify the integration of LGTBQ+ content throughout undergraduate and graduate curricula. Such curricular work would ensure that students are: (a) competently prepared to provide care for these populations in alignment with best practices, and (b) able to challenge negative perspectives, stigma, and discrimination of LGBTQ individuals seeking health care (De  Guzman et al., 2018; Lim& Hsu,  2016).

Source: Nursing Outlook - January 7, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Athena D.F. Sherman, Sheila K. Smith, Scott Emory Moore, Christopher Lance Coleman, Tonda L. Hughes, Caroline Dorsen, Monique S. Balthazar, Meredith Klepper, Ronica Mukerjee, Kelly M. Bower Source Type: research