It’s been said that lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) nurs form one of the largt mori wh the profsn, and yet they are hardly regnized as a subgroup. To date, limed data are available to terme jt how many nurs intify as LGBT (or some variatn of those letters, such as LGBTQ, which
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LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL (LGB) PEOPLE'S EXPERIENC OF NURSG HEALTH RE: AN EMANCIPATORY NURSG PRACTICE TEGRATIVE REVIEW
* homosexuality in nursing *
Sexual orientatn ually refers to a person's romantic or sexual preferenc and clus labels like gay, straight, queer, lbian, bisexual, and heterosexual, among others. The Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn offers a eful directory of healthre profsnals who provi tstworthy re to the LGBTQ+ muny. Je Meda-Martínez, 1 Carlos Ss-Ortega, 1, 2, * María Montserrat Sánchez-Lorente, 1, 2 Eva María Sosa-Palan, 1, 2 Pedro García-Martínez, 1, 2 and María Isabel Mármol-López1, 2Igor Grabovac, Amic EdorAbstractBackground: Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people prent poorer mental and physil health rults pared to the heterosexual and cisgenr populatn.
IntroductnLGBT is an ialism that refers to the llective of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people. Other ialisms such as LGBTIAQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, aromantic, and queer people) or LGBT+ are also often ed to explicly clu other groups; however, the acronym LGBT will be ed this article bee s e is most wispread worldwi.
The term lbian refers to women who only feel sexual-affective attractn to other women, gay refers to men who only feel sexual-affective attractn to other men, and bisexual refers to people who feel sexual-affective attractn to people of the same or different genrs to themselv.