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Thesis
Creating a Safe and Caring Health Care Context for Women Who Have Sex with Women
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
05/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3079
Abstract
Purpose: The purposes of this paper are to identify common health disparities among women who have sex with women (WSW), identify discrimination/substandard care for WSW by many health care providers, and recommend ways to create a safe and caring patient-provider relationship. Data Sources: Data for this article are from a search of several databases including the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, PubMed, PsycInfo, sociology indexes, and Web of Science databases. Conclusions: Much of the literature on WSW identifies the lack ofa safe and caring health care context for this population. There are common health disparities identified including: cancer and screening, substance abuse, mental health issues, sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health, and obesity and cardiovascular risk. Research on WSW has historically been difficult, inconclusive and underutilized so there remains a need for increased and improved research on WSW. Implications for Practice: Providers are responsible for providing quality, ethical care for all populations, including the WSW population. There are several key elements to establishing a safe and caring patient-provider relationship. Elements discussed are: reflection, environment, language, and knowledge. While gaps in the research on the WSW population remain, integration of current knowledge is ethically required and is needed to address disparities within the population.
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- Title
- Creating a Safe and Caring Health Care Context for Women Who Have Sex with Women
- Creators
- Nicole Marie Flemmer
- Contributors
- Dawn Doutrich (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590721301842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis