ABSTRACT
Nurses have the obligation and duty to care for all people (American Nurses Association, 2015), and to treat them with dignity, respect, and compassion (Fowler, 2015). To address equitable care of LGBTQIA people in her community, Jackie Baras, MSN, MBA, RN, serves as LGBT Navigator at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital/RWJBarnabas Health in New Brunswick, New Jersey. As a transgender woman, Jackie advocates as liaison and representative for all LGBTQIA patients and employees, focusing on health promotion and disease prevention, addressing knowledge gaps, and identifying community referrals, while working closely with hospital and clinical leadership to ensure that health-care services are coordinated seamlessly. Here, Jackie discusses her advocacy for equitable care for LGBTQIA communities, and ways nurses can provide culturally congruent care.
Subject(s)
Culturally Competent Care/methods , Empathy , Nursing Care/psychology , Nursing Staff, Hospital/psychology , Patient Advocacy/psychology , Respect , Sexual and Gender Minorities/psychology , Adult , Attitude of Health Personnel , Female , Gender Identity , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , New JerseyABSTRACT
Despite the increasing importance of evidence-based practice for the nursing profession, some nurses remain unable to use scientific evidence in their clinical practice to support their critical thinking and nursing skills. PERL (Print, Electronic, Resource Persons, and Location) is an acronym that nurses can use to categorize available resources to practice evidence-based nursing, thereby enhancing patient outcomes.
