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- Title
Supporting LGBTQ+ Students: A Focus Group Study with Junior High School Nurses.
- Authors
Laiti, Minna; Pakarinen, Anni; Parisod, Heidi; Hayter, Mark; Sariola, Salla; Salanterä, Sanna
- Abstract
LBGTQ+ students often miss the support and information they need in the school nursing, but little is known about junior high school (JHS) nurses' work with LGBTQ+ students. 15 JHS nurses were interviewed in focus groups about their perceptions of supporting LGBTQ+ students. Four interconnected themes were identified with inductive thematic analysis: (1) JHS nurses' professional identity and practice; (2) Recognition of sexual and gender diversity in school; (3) Family acceptance process; and (4) LGBTQ+ students as school nursing clients. JHS nurses self-identified as accepting professionals, but having limited skills, knowledge, and education needed in supporting LGBTQ+ students. Supporting LGBTQ+ students is a complex phenomenon, and to enhance JHS nurses' competence in providing care for these students, sexual and gender diversity needs to be included in evidence-based nursing information sources, covered in nursing education, and the school needs to be secured as LGBTQ+ safe place.
- Subjects
FINLAND; NURSING education; STUDENT assistance programs; FOCUS groups; GENDER identity; SELF-efficacy; QUALITATIVE research; RESEARCH funding; PSYCHOLOGY of LGBTQ+ people; INTERVIEWING; SEXUAL orientation identity; HUMAN sexuality; COMPASSION; NURSING schools; PROFESSIONAL identity; NURSING; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; THEMATIC analysis; RESEARCH methodology; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING practice; MIDDLE schools; FAMILY support; SEXUAL minorities; DATA analysis software; SOCIAL support; PROFESSIONAL competence; CULTURAL pluralism
- Publication
Journal of School Nursing, 2024, Vol 40, Issue 3, p295
- ISSN
1059-8405
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10598405221086035