Category Archives: Best practices

LGBT Voices: Perspectives on Health Care

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Peggy Chinn
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New Workplace Climate Scale!

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Peggy Chinn

Have you ever experienced or witnessed conditions that harm workers who are LGBTQ?  Perhaps you have not even thought about this problem, but we know that it exists in far too many situations. In an effort to address this issue, … Continue reading →

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Queer Birthing Practices and Feminist Phenomenology

Posted on September 24, 2015 by lisagoldberg2014

Having spent much of my clinical practice as a perinatal nurse, working in the US and Canada, and being a member of the LGBTQ community, it is not surprising that one of my great passions as an educator and researcher … Continue reading →

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Kelli Dunham calls for LGBT Culturally Competent Care on NPR Blog!

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Peggy Chinn

“Health News from NPR” just posted an excellent article by nurse Kelli Dunham focused on health disparities in the LGBT community that are aided and abetted by inadequate care for LGBT people and their families.  She points to the recent … Continue reading →

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Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Thomas Lawrence Long

In the hopes that this memorial will one day become unnecessary, we mark Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20) with attention to health issues. The 2011 Institute of Medicine report The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a … Continue reading →

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