LGBTQ+ Health: A guide to inclusive nursing care

Filling a gap in the healthcare literature, LGBTQ+ Health: A Guide to Inclusive Nursing Care is a comprehensive, accessible, and timely resource for nurses and allied health professionals. This unique text helps both students and practitioners develop the skills they need to offer compassionate, relevant, and inclusive healthcare to this growing proportion of society. In one convenient reference, readers will find the information they need to provide a high level of care, enhanced by numerous powerful, meaningful stories of lived experiences from a wide variety of LGBTQ voices that support theory and nursing guidance._x000d_
Begins with the history of LGBTQ+ healthcare and the trailblazers of the past, providing a foundation of understanding and knowledge and encouraging empathy in the reader_x000d_
Covers dozens of relevant, real-world topics related to LGBTQ+ inclusive care:_x000d_
Inequalities in Healthcare covers the role of stigma and discrimination; social determinants of health; barriers to gender-affirming care; mental health disparities; the roles of nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals; unconscious bias; and more_x000d_
A Focus on Care covers clinical topics such as gender services; fertility preservation; gender and the perinatal period; parenting; alcohol and substance abuse; sexual health; health promotion; end-of-life care; primary care; cancer services; and more