What Nurses Need to Know: How to Take a Sex Positive Health History with LGBTQ+ Patients

By: Christopher Payton Stuckey All too often, a health care provider’s heterosexual bias (explicitly stated or communicated through tone and nonverbal body language) causes LGBTQ+ persons to feel shame during a sexual health history assessment. Culture—including LGBTQ+ culture—is a social determinant of health. A provider who is culturally insensitive—who is unaware or uncaring in their
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - June 28, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse What Nurses Need to Know LGBT LGBTQ safe sex sexual health Source Type: blogs