%0 Journal Article
%T The complexity of trauma for LGBTQ+ people: considerations for acute and critical care
%J Critical care nursing clinics of North America
%D 2023
%A Cottrell, Damon B.
%A Aaron-Brija, Lori
%A Berkowitz, Emily
%A Williams, Jeffrey
%V 35
%N 2
%P 179-189
%X Trauma care is complex. Acute and critical care clinicians perceive trauma as a skilled response to critical injury or accident that occurs to patients, but trauma exists on many levels. One of those is a grim reality for patients who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and from other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+). A lifetime of trauma through stigma, discrimination, and victimization is too often present. Owing to distrust of the health care system and clinicians, LGBTQ+ experience health and health care disparities.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0899-5885
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnc.2023.02.010