Magnet Nurse Administrator Attitudes and Opportunities Toward Improving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender-Specific Healthcare

The study titled Magnet Nurse Administrator Attitudes and Opportunities Toward Enhancing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender-Specific Healthcare by Klotzbaugh and Spencer (2014)

The study titled Magnet Nurse Administrator Attitudes and Opportunities Toward Enhancing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender-Specific Healthcare by Klotzbaugh and Spencer (2014) discusses the critical subject of prejudice in the care delivery process by healthcare workers. The focus is on lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) people who face bias in the healthcare system.

Findings and Insights

While the researchers’ findings provide important insights into the issues that the LGBT community faces, I regret that I have not had the opportunity to encounter it in my professional nursing practice. In the Magnet settings, I have always noticed that the experts tend to act in as normal way as possible as strive to act in exemplary professionalism (American Nurses Credentialing Centre, 2008). It is thus surprising that some professional care for patients based on the prejudice that they hold when giving care. The paper underscores the fact that the attitude that chief nursing officers have towards the LGBT plays a huge role in care because the health professional tend to exhibit homonegative attitudes and were uncomfortable in heartening the LGBT patients and staff.

Importance of Diversity Awareness and Recommendations

While I have not had the chance of interacting with similar patients in a professional setting. I consider that in a Magnet, the nurse ought to ensure that they limit the chance that they could be trapped in the discrimination of patients. The evaluation of a healthcare is defined biased on the nurses’ impact and the moment they begin displaying acts of discrimination, it is highly likely that they will have destroyed the reputation of the healthcare institution. I, therefore. recommend that nurses should be trained on the importance pf diversity awareness so that they are in a position to provide care notwithstanding race, sexual orientation, gender, or any other feature that compromises the Magnet.

References

American Nurses Credentialing Centre. (2008). Overview of ANCC Magnet Recognition Program. Nurse Credentialing. Retrieved from https://www.va.gov/nursing/docs/ancc_newmagnetmodel.pdf

Klotzbaugh, R., & Spencer, G. (2014). Magnet Nurse Administrator Attitudes and Opportunities Toward Improving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender-Specific Healthcare. Journal of Nursing Administration, 44(9), 481–486. http://doi.org/10.1097/nna.0000000000000103