2SLGBTQ+ leisure spaces (e.g., 2SLGBTQ+ community centres and recreation groups) offer opportunities to form identities and augment 2SLGBTQ+ people’s overall well-being. These spaces are considered ‘safe’ for 2SLGBTQ+ people to escape heterosexism, while being able to openly express themselves and develop community. However, these might be sites of discrimination for 2SLGBTQ+ people with other minoritized identities (e.g., racialized people), given the whiteness of these spaces. Racialized 2SLGBTQ+ individuals’ experiences of discrimination, generally and within 2SLGBTQ+ leisure spaces, can threaten their well-being, thus highlighting the value of 2SLGBTQ+ spaces, but how do racialized 2SLGBTQ+ people negotiate these often-problematic spaces? This paper presents a conceptual framework that bridges theories and research across social work and leisure studies. The conceptual framework extends the minority stress theory with theories of intersectionality, whiteness, and resilience using a socioecological lens to interrogate experiences and outcomes along multiple dimensions of social identities created by racism and other oppressive systems (e.g., sexism, cisgenderism, classism, ableism) within queer leisure spaces. This paper also describes how the framework can be implemented as an analytic tool and can facilitate investigations of systems of oppression and resilience within queer leisure spaces from the perspective of racialized 2SLGBTQ+ people through critical examination of power relations, relationality, complexity, social justice, and whiteness. Understanding how discrimination occurs and the multi-level resilience-promoting factors that exist in 2SLGBTQ+ leisure spaces will provide an avenue to address the effects of discrimination and foster racialized 2SLGBTQ+ people’s social well-being and inclusion.
Objectives
To evaluate the role of clinical pharmacists in cardiac day wards.
Methods
A service evaluation was conducted during 24 February 2020–27 March 2020 to assess the role of clinical pharmacists for all patients admitted to an Australian tertiary hospital cardiac day ward.
Key findings
Overall, 297 patients were included. Medication review occurred for 80% (237/297) and a best possible medication history was obtained for 65% (193/297) of patients. Acceptance of interventions for medication-related problems was 93% (84/90). When compared with medication plans outlined in standard catheterisation laboratory documentation without pharmacist input, a pharmacist medication review resulted in increased documentation of medication plans in the patient’s medical record at the time of discharge (20% (1/5) versus 95% (142/150), P < 0.001).
Conclusion
Pharmacists can optimise the medication management of patients in cardiac day wards by performing medication review, and facilitating implementation and communication of medication changes at hospital discharge to patients and primary healthcare providers.
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