NYU Nursing School Launches Course on How to Care for LGBT Folx – Opinion

We are all proud, and so is the entire culture. And as the Rainbow’s rays fall on societal facets, medicine isn’t left uncolored.

For example, take a course in a brand new program at New York University.

According to a June 2nd announcement, NYU’s nursing school has launched an “LGBTQ+ health course.”

NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing offers a new course that focuses on LGBTQ+ health. This elective will help nursing students be able to care for these people in a culturally inclusive way.

Clinical Assistant Professor Jeff Day — the addition’s developer and teacher — hailed a meeting of demand:

“It is rare for nursing schools to offer coursework dedicated to the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals, despite the unique issues they face and growing interest from students. Our goal is to empower new nurses to provide care for people across sexual orientations and gender expressions that promotes health and improves patient outcomes.”

What could make the course different from an approach that isn’t concerned with self-perception or sexual preference? Maybe the answer is destigmatization

LGBTQ+ individuals face barriers to healthcare, including stigma and discrimination, as well as longstanding health disparities—for instance, an increased risk for substance use, suicide, and sexually transmitted infections.

“Understanding” could play a part, too:

Although nurses have been leaders in the care of this patient population in recent times, especially in advocacy for those living with HIV/AIDS, many healthcare professionals are not aware that LGBTQ+ issues exist in healthcare.

It would seem that “nurses have historicAlly been leaders in caring” for all populations. NYU has stepped up its LGBT efforts in any case.

Studies show that undergrad nursing programs devote only 2.12 hours to teaching LGBTQ+-related content. Some nursing schools are taking steps to incorporate LGBTQ+ content into their programs. NYU Meyers educators have recently created a simulation that focuses on LGBTQ+ health to help prepare students for creating a safe environment in which to care for everyone, regardless of sexuality or gender. It shows the importance of using inclusive language in an emergency room visit.

New York’s eponymous public university isn’t the first Big Apple institution to school healthcare workers in treating the ever-expanding Alphabet Alliance. Earlier this month, Columbia University brought news of a first-ever degree in “Transgender Non-Binary Health Care for Advanced Practice Nurses and PAs.”

It was designed to address unique educational needs.

Trans people may…need to undergo the preventive care required for their biological sex, for example prostate cancer screening for those born male.

A specialized market might indeed be emerging…

As for the aforementioned “inclusive language,” America’s healthcare apparatus is certainly on the gender-nonspecific ball:

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Medicine is increasingly aimed toward social justice, and such a boost begins in the classroom…

This is how the Contemporary Issues in Health Care program at NYU can be described:

Rich sub-concepts are embedded in human experiences of sickness and health. They include comfort and suffering and genetics/genomics and bioethics. Quality care is directly linked to nursing ethics. As they examine factors that affect the wellbeing of people, students will have to be able to critically think and act ethically.

Professor Jeff is looking forward to the day when LGBT-specific courses in healthcare will be mandatory

“While ideally LGBTQ+ content would be woven throughout the entire nursing curriculum, we recognized that this amount of change takes time, so we developed an elective course to help fill the gap in LGBTQ+ educational content.”

His ideal is certain to be realized soon.

-ALEX

 

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