Rickey Logan
Title: The Do’s and the Don’ts in Supporting the “Gayby Boom”: The role of the NICU/Nursery in working with LGBT families
Biography
The presenter is a dual certified Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner and Neonatal Nurse Practitioner practicing in a Level IV NICU in
New York City, NY. He most recently graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania and has had previous nursing degrees from Duke University. His
Clinical expertise of 8+ years of nursing stems from neonatology, the pediatric
cardiac ICU, general peds/nursery, and the pediatric ICU. My clinical interests
are inclusive to the psychosocial aspects of LGBT lead families and how the
internal stressors and external stressor influence the healthcare of the
patient or child and how we as providers can give individualized, high quality,
and sensitive healthcare to the LGBT family structure. The presenter has acted
as an advocate in the LGBT community in New York City playing in nonprofit
leagues and a symphonic band, and has done several presentations for NICUs in educating
pathophysiology for specific topics, precepted nurses and nurse practitioners,
and has recently been published in Advanced in Neonatal Care as of January
2020.
