response to Patient safety and advocacy

Response to Patient Safety and Advocacy
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Amanda: It is crucial for a healthcare worker to be well-informed on caring for patients with sexual identity. At our institution, these are often cared for at the outpatient department of the hospital. Before admission, patients with sexual identity in the inpatient unit are scheduled for different in-service sections. This is in an effort to educate the staff on how to effectively care for them. My first encounter with such a case involved a transgender patient and it was hard for me to handle it. I had to write a post for reference purpose. The patient was a man who seeking gender transformation. As it was, he had masculine looks but desired a feminine state. Personally, this encounter was not easy. However, I have currently gained more insight. From my experience, it is clear that the inflexibility of staff belief in regards to sexual identity may lead to bias when dealing with such patients. This implies that proper training should be accorded for efficient operation.
In regards to the topic of transgender, I believe that education should not only be reserved for nurses only but everyone in the society. In the society today, there is an existing bias on individual’s who opt for a sex change. I believe this is wrong. As a society, we must be accommodative in order to ensure harmonious living. The majority of the patients I interact with at the hospital have suffered from some form of sexual abuse in their childhood.

In addition, some of them deal with sexual identity crises from their adolescence. As such, they are never happy about who they are. Mainly, this is the reason why persons struggling with gender identity should be carefully identified. This, and the ensuing recognition is to enhance the sense of belonging (people, also called genderless, gender-free, non-gendered, or ungendered people are those who identify as having no gender or being without any gender identity. This category includes a very broad range of identities which do not conform to traditional gender norms). The difficulties associated with the struggle have resulted in some committing suicide. This is due to the lack of a group that supports their needs consequently lacking a sense of belonging. For adolescents, making a choice regarding surgery is a complicated affair. At this age, they still are young to make rational decisions.
Emilee: This year I had the opportunity to attend a lobby day at the State House. This was on Tuesday, March 20th at the ANA (American Nurse Association). It is at this place that I learned different ways of advocating for my patients. This is with regards to issues concerning my profession. One of the topics dealt with was on safe staging/nurse-patient-ratio. The nurse who was privileged to give the talk made it clear that the decision to have a law resolving the problem was not the ultimate solution. After her presentation, and my research on safe staffing, I do not believe that we need a law to resolve that problem. Fundamentally, the law failed in the state of California and as such it is less likely to work for Massachusetts. Currently, there is a lack of representation from the nursing profession in the health policy committee in the Statehouse. How can they make decision for us when they do not have a clue about what kind of job we do as a nurse or never be in the shoe of a nurse? On Lobby day we discussed about the bill: H1681.S615. This Bill would require that a registered nurse be appointed as a member of this commission. The staffing problem got to this point because the nursing profession is being led by women. As observed, women have the tendency of backstabbing their own. We practice it in our profession. According to two legislator’s representatives, Kay Khan and Denise Garlick, who began their careers as nurses? In their discussion with us they mentioned that they have had numerous meeting with legislators about staffing issues. We as nurse often don’t agree about how to resolve the problem. A nurse cannot be assertive about what they want they decide to bring it to the general public for an answer. ANA oppose to the mandated staffing ratio proposal and outline their approach within the ANA Whitepaper.
I disagree with the general public to decide about staffing ratio. We as a nurse can decide with our hospital manager how to sort out safe staffing.