How can the nurse’s preexisting bias or lack of cultural competence hinder positive health outcomes when providing care to LGBTQ persons and families? What steps can the nurse take to ensure the most optimal outcomes?

1. How can the nurse’s preexisting bias or lack of cultural competence hinder positive health outcomes when providing care to LGBTQ persons and families? What steps can the nurse take to ensure the most optimal outcomes?

2. Consider how your own family is self‐defined. How could the health of your family of choice be affected because of legal or social definitions of family?
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Reference

MacDonnell, J. A., Bartlett, M. E., & Tabacco, A. (2018). Nursing care of LGBTQ families. In J. R. Kaakinen, D. P. Coehlo, R. Steele, & M. Robinson (Eds.), Family health care nursing: Theory, practice, and research (6th ed., pp. 181-209). F. A. Davis Company.