Nursing Care for the transgender population: genders from the perspective of professional practice

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa,Danilo Fagundes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Carvalho,Marcos Vinícius de Freitas, Pereira,Nayla Rodrigues, Rocha,Natalia Tenore, Neves,Vanessa Ribeiro, Rosa,Anderson da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672019000700299
• topic: Transgender People; Gender Identity; Nursing Care; Comprehensive Health Care; Public Health Policies

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe and analyze the national and international scientific production on Nursing care for the transgender or gender-variance population. Method: Integrative review of the literature, conducted throughout the Virtual Health Library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Public Medline and Web of Science databases, without pre-established periods of time and using the descriptors "Transgender AND ‘Nursing Assistance'" and "Transgender AND ‘Nursing care'". Results: We included 11 articles, published between 2005 and 2016, broadly North American with only one Brazilian, so categorized: I- Fragility in the care of transgender people; II - Health of the transgender population: general and specific demands; III- Public health policies for transgender people. Transgender people have not found yet answers to their health demands; they are victims of prejudices and violence in services and seek care in extreme cases of sickness. Final considerations: Understanding their needs is primordial to build knowledge and practices that support nursing care.