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There exist large healthcare disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender individuals in the contemporary world. Members of the LGBTQ community continue to suffer from healthcare disparities. For instance, approximately 82% of heterosexual adults maintain healthcare insurance in the United States (Acolatse, 2020). On the other hand, approximately 77% of LGBTQ individuals maintain such insurance covers. Such increased healthcare disparities originate from several factors such as lack of health insurance, LGBTQ stigma, and lack of competent care.  This paper explores the strategies to reduced healthcare disparities among the LGBTQ community.

            There is the need to ensure LGBTQ inclusivity in the national healthcare narrative. This will help to reduce unnecessary healthcare risks to such individuals. The inclusion of LGBTQ communities will help to ensure major changes in healthcare systems. Healthcare organizations and governments should also increase the access of LGBTQ people to comprehensive care through ensuring a collective commitment and collaboration between social work, healthcare, public health, and policy making (Acolatse, 2020). This will help to reduce LBGTQ’s stigma and ensure increased participation in healthcare issues. Healthcare organizations can also reduce LBGTQ healthcare disparities through healthcare training and education programs. As such, there is the need to equip healthcare practitioners with resources and knowledge to deliver improved and comprehensive care to the full spectrum of patients. Such training programs will help healthcare practitioners to equally treat patients without any form of discrimination.

              Healthcare education and service institutions also need to increase the number of special population practitioners.  Currently, there exist limited special practitioners, who are limited in specific geographic areas.  Members of the LGBTQ community might face several challenges that might limit their access to such healthcare practitioners (Hafeez, Zeshan, Tahir, Jahan, & Naveed, 2017). For instance, members of the LGBTQ community might experience transport barriers to access specialized healthcare practitioners. This in turn will increase their access disparities compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Each primary care and specialist practitioner needs to become educated concerning the treatment requirements and risks of treating LGBTQ patients. Such increased education will also help to reduce the bias of healthcare professionals towards this community (Baptiste-Roberts, Oranuba, Werts, & Edwards, 2017).  Healthcare professionals also maintain a persona responsibility of becoming more educated and comfortable in the provision of healthcare services to the LGBTQ community members. Through education, the healthcare practitioners will become aware of the misconceptions, stereotypes, and biases against the LGBTQ community.  I believe that every person deserves comprehensive and compassionate healthcare regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

          Healthcare organizations also need to foster an environment that supports and nurtures all patients and families. This is through several approaches such as ensuring that the existing visitation policies are fair and non-discriminatory. Healthcare professionals also need to refrain from making assumptions and judgments concerning a patient’s sexual orientation based on appearance. Healthcare organizations can also foster such an environment through the determination and implementation of mechanisms that prevents patient discrimination (Baptiste-Roberts, Oranuba, Werts, & Edwards, 2017). Healthcare organizations also need to honor and respect patient decisions on the disclosure of sexual orientation and gender identity. As such, there is the need for the implementation of policies that will allow for gender-neutral language that will allow for self-identification.

References

Acolatse, N. (2020). Health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population in Ghana. TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING, 6(1), 84-96. doi:10.21522/tijnr.2015.06.01.art009

Baptiste-Roberts, K., Oranuba, E., Werts, N., & Edwards, L. V. (2017). Addressing health care disparities among sexual minorities. Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 44(1), 71-80. doi:10.1016/j.ogc.2016.11.003

Hafeez, H., Zeshan, M., Tahir, M. A., Jahan, N., & Naveed, S. (2017). Health care disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth: A literature review. Cureus. doi:10.7759/cureus.1184

Answer both of the following questions honestly and professionally:

1. Discuss      the factors and approach you will use to develop a professional      partnership with your selected site.
2. What      is the importance of collaborating with other healthcare professionals in      order to establish trusting relationships to gain commitment for      mobilizing health initiatives? 

Your initial posting should be 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook.

Discussion: Diversity and Health Assessments

• Greatest Paintings Instructions: Using the video as the reference for your discussion posting and responses, compose a written discussion about the artwork presented in the video.

“50 Greatest Paintings” “History Masterpieces” “Famous Artists” “Expensive Pieces”01:12https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSMaCs8mQls&feature=emb_logo01:13

• In your original posting, discuss the following: Do you know the works of art in this video? 
• Choose 10 of these artists and research them further online. What about the time period that they were painting in? 
• What were the social conditions like, not just for wealthy people often depicted in the paintings, but for starving artists and the common man? 
• How did these artists contribute to our understanding of our history? 

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Peer Response:

Greatest Paintings

Instructions:

Provide a substantive response to 1 peer.

When posting a reply to other students, consider the following questions:

• Why did the person choose those artists?
• What assumptions do you make about the original poster based upon the choice of artists?
• Why do people make assumptions about others based on extremely limited information?
• In what ways do you agree or disagree with the student’s analysis of why paintings persist in culture?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Architect Daniel Libeskind is credited with saying “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.” The suggestion is that his work does not copy the efforts of others but relies on it.

Understanding the work of others is critically important to new work. Contributions to the nursing body of knowledge can happen when you are able to analyze and articulate the efforts of previous research. Research analysis skills are therefore critical tools for your toolbox.

In this Assignment, you will locate relevant existing research. You also will analyze this research using a tool helpful for analysis.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources this Module’s Learning Resources in support of locating and analyzing research.
• Use the Walden Library to identify and read one peer-reviewed research article focused on a topic in your specialty field that interests you.
• Review the article you selected and reflect on the professional practice use of theories/concepts described by the article.

The Assignment:

Using the “Module 4 | Part 4” section of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the following:

• Your topic of interest.
• A correctly formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search details.
• Identify a professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.
• Analysis of the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template
• Write a 1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to inform professional practice.
• Write a 2- to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan that includes the following:
  • Describe your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in finding peer-reviewed research.
  • Identify at least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed research.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

MAINTAINING PROGRAM MOMENTUM

1. Review all of the information that you have gathered throughout the term and develop a sustainability plan for your program.
2. Do a brief assessment of your plan and discuss how you can strengthen it.

Length: 2–3 pages double-spaced, excluding the cover page and the reference list.

What do you feel is the most important component in the development and maintenance of a successful professional identity?  What steps will you take to develop this component if Healthcare was your professional life? PLEASE INCLUDE IN-TEXT CITATIO AND REFERENCE

Describe a class in which you were a strategic learner in order to pass a test but did not come away from the class with a deep learning experience.

P.S, please follow the instructions as it asks and answer the question.

I only need half-page and two references from  Potter, P, A., Perry book and Scholar article that are less than five years of publication.
Thank you 

 In one paragraph explain the difference between a regular research paper and a literary analysis paper? 

Johnson viewed health as efficient and effective functioning of the system, and as behavioral system balance and stability. Behavioral system balance and stability are demonstrated by observed behavior that is purposeful, orderly, and predictable. Consider a clinical-practice situation that demonstrates Johnson’s model of health. How can the nurse support this theory to return the patient to balance and stability?