New E-Book Addresses LGBTQ Issues In The Education Of Healthcare Professionals

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Article Date: 23 Oct 2009 - 17:00 PDT

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is proud to announce publication of LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity, written by Michele J. Eliason, PhD, Suzanne L Dibble, DNSc, RN, Jeanne DeJoseph, CNM, PhD, and Peggy Chinn, RN, PhD. The book is available online only at www.NursingCenter.com/lgbtq and addresses health care disparities among the , gay, bisexual, and transgender, communities. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.

The authors are women who have been actively involved in lesbian social, cultural and political circles most of their lives. Each experienced the demands to be heterosexual while growing up. Now, as openly lesbian nurse leaders, they share insights into the LGBTQ experience in health care. The book is written for those who have little or no experience in LGBTQ communities.

"Readers will come to this book with varying degrees of openness to learning and understanding our experience," say the authors. "We hope that our approach provides a bridge to greater understanding and appreciation.".

"We will raise issues that are controversial and have no easy resolution, and, indeed, we struggle with the many thorny issues raised in this book ourselves. We raise them in order to challenge health care professionals to begin conversations about these issues and start identifying the steps that are needed to change the health care climate to one that is open, welcoming, and inclusive to all the people it serves."

LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity is available online only at http://www.NursingCenter.com/lgbtq. The book comes with the opportunity for 21 hours of continuing education and is ideal for health education classes and certification programs.

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http://www.NursingCenter.com, powered by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), provides over 1,100 peer-reviewed continuing education activities and free access to 11,000 articles from more than 50 leading nursing journals. This is the premier site for online nursing continuing education and peer reviewed content.

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About the Authors

Michele J. Eliason, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Education at San Francisco State University currently, and was on faculty at the University of Iowa College of Nursing from 1987-2005; Suzanne Dibble, DNSc, RN, is at the University of California, San Francisco, and is a co-founder of the Lesbian Health and Research Center; Jeanne DeJoseph, PhD,CNM, is an Emerita of the University of California, San Francisco, and is a midwife; Peggy Chinn, PhD, RN, is an Emerita, University of Connecticut, and is the current editor of Journal of Nursing Science.

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