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- Title
LGBTQ+ in the ICU: Improving Healthcare through Understanding.
- Authors
Trinier, Ruth; Quinto, Sarah
- Abstract
Purpose/goals: Through this presentation, we aim to foster understanding and facilitate awareness of internalized cisheteronormative assumptions and attitudes that we may carry, as nurses, and the ways these attitudes impact our nursing practice. Session description: Five percent of the population in Canada identifies as LGBTQ+. Despite significant advances in equality rights in Canada, barriers to accessing queer and trans-positive healthcare services, including end-of-life care, persist. Key barriers include institutionalized assumptions of heteronormativity and biases and assumptions that healthcare providers may hold. There is increasing awareness that culturally supportive care improves patient outcomes in ICU, a key component of which is the creation of environments that are respectful of all aspects of client identities, including gender identity and sexual orientation. Through an interactive workshop format, we aim to foster understanding and facilitate awareness of internalized cisheteronormative assumptions and attitudes that we may hold and the way these attitudes may impact our nursing practice. An introduction of definitions and history of homophobia and transphobia in healthcare will be followed by an interactive dialectic small group workshop. Learning outcomes: 1. The critical care nurse will be able to identify personally held biases and cisheteronorative assumptions. 2. The critical care nurse will be able to identify the impact of these biases and assumptions on the LGBTQ+ client. 3. The critical care nurse will be able to promote ideas and attitudes to create a LGBTQ+ positive environment.
- Subjects
ATTITUDE (Psychology); INTENSIVE care nursing; MEDICAL personnel; LGBTQ+ people
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 2, p47
- ISSN
2368-8653
- Publication type
Article