Jordon Bosse, PhD, RN

  • Assistant Professor
  • College of Nursing
  • Phone: 401.874.5313
  • Email: Jordon.Bosse@uri.edu
  • Office Location: RI NEC, Room 251, 350 Eddy St., Providence, RI, 02903

Biography

Dr. Jordon Bosse (he/him) has a long-term research goal to improve the mental health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) individuals by identifying and developing community-engaged, trauma-informed, complementary and integrative health interventions to foster resilience and buffer the impact of minority stressors, such as rejection and discrimination, on mental health. He is also interested in how such interventions can benefit other individuals who experience stigma and marginalization. His prior work in this area has explored associations between parental and sibling acceptance-rejection and the role of different types of social support on the mental health of LGBTQIA+ young adults.

Dr. Bosse is trained to teach the Mindful Self-Compassion curriculum and meditation, and has completed training in trauma-sensitive mindfulness. He brings these skills and his research interests together through a five-year career development grant (K01AT012495) from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. He is at the beginning of year three (Fall 2025) and is launching a clinical trial to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a mindful self-compassion intervention among transgender and nonbinary young adults (18-25).

Dr. Bosse is passionate about mentoring undergraduate research fellows, honors students, and graduate students. He has experience conducting cross-sectional, mixed-methods studies; secondary analysis of existing data sets, including electronic health record data; recruiting hard-to-reach populations via social media; instrument development; and evaluating the usability and feasibility of mobile technology.

In addition to mental health nursing (adult, inpatient, mental health and substance use) and clinical nurse education, Dr. Bosse has experience as a summer camp nurse for transgender and nonbinary young people and a community health educator (HIV prevention and reproductive health; harm reductionist). Prior to becoming full-time faculty, he served as the program manager of research and education at one of the first telehealth companies established to provide care for opioid use disorder, where he helped to develop clinical processes and patient education, evaluate treatment retention, and explore the feasibility and acceptability of the patient-facing app and clinical processes through an NIH-funded study.

Dr. Bosse co-founded and co-leads a research interest group for nurses and allied health professionals who work and/or conduct research with LGBQTIA+ populations through the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS). He is also a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Health Equity Research Collaborative and an External Faculty Nurse Scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Research

Mental health, LGBTQIA+ people, minority stress, resilience, self-compassion, mindfulness, nursing education

Education

PhD, Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

MS, Nursing Education, St. Joseph’s College of Maine, Standish, ME

BSN, Magna Cum Laude, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

BA, Individualized Studies (focused on psychology, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender youth), Goddard College, Plainfield, VT

Selected Publications

Clark, K. D., Bosse, J. D., Jackman, K. B., Brown, D., Dubay, J., Jewell, J., Flanders, S., Hardwick, C., & Dawson-Rose, C. (2025) “I don’t think I’ve been out of fight or flight. Ever”: Trans experiences in inpatient psychiatric treatment. International Journal of Nursing Studies: 105028 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105028 PMID: 40043471

McLaughlin, A.J., Nonoyama, S., Glupe, L., Bosse, J. D. (2025) Systemic transphobia and ongoing barriers to healthcare for transgender and nonbinary people: A historical analysis of #TransHealthFail. PLoS Digital Health, 4(2): e0000718. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000718 PMID: 40072968 [all 3 co-authors were former undergraduate research fellows]

Bosse, J. D., Kantor, L. Z., Wang, Y-C., Korkodilos, R., Reisner, S. L., Ehrensaft, D., Herman, J. L., & Katz-Wise, S. L. (2025). Healthcare Mistreatment is Associated with Psychological Distress, Suicidality, and Substance Use Among Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults. Emerging Adulthood, 13(2): p. 464-484 https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968241308316

Clark, K. D., Jewell, J., Sherman, A. D. F., Balthazar, M., Murray, S. & Bosse, J. D. (2025) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People’s Experiences of Stigma Across the Spectrum of Inpatient Psychiatric Care: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 34(1):e13455 https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13455 PMID: 39435958

Bosse, J. D., Katz-Wise, S., & Chiodo, L. M. (2024) Sexual and Gender Diverse Young Adults’ Perception of Behaviors that are Supportive and Unsupportive of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities. Journal of Adolescent Research 39(1), 165-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584221124957

Boutilier, A. Clark, K. D., Bosse, J. D., Jackman, K., Jewell, J., Dawson-Rose, C. (2025). Social-Ecological Barriers and Facilitators to Seeking Inpatient Psychiatric Care Among Transgender and Nonbinary People: A Qualitative Descriptive Study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 81(4): 1937-1952. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16393 PMID: 39206720

Bosse, J. D., Clark, K. D, Dion, K. A., Chiodo, L. M. (2024).Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Depression and Suicidality in Association with Familial Acceptance-Rejection. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 56(1): 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12917 PMID: 37235487 [*selected for Editor’s Choice*]

Cicero, E. C., Bosse, J. D., Ducar, D., Rodriguez, C., Dillard-Wright, J. (2024) Facilitating gender-affirming nursing encounters. Nursing Clinics of North America, 59(1): 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2023.11.007 PMID: 38272585

Klepper, M., Clark, K. D., Bosse, J. D., Kerbyson, M., Roy, E., Rushton, C. H. (2022) State-level anti-transgender policies in conflict with core principles of nursing: An educator call to action. Nurse Education Today, 119 [online ahead of print] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105608

Bosse, J. D., Katz-Wise, S., & Chiodo, L. M. (2022) Sexual and Gender Diverse Young Adults’ Perception of Behaviors that are Supportive and Unsupportive of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities. Journal of Adolescent Research 39(1), 165-195. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584221124957

Bosse, J. D., Dion, K. A., Campbell Galman, S., & Chiodo, L. (2022). Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults’ Perception of Sibling and Parental Support for Gender Identity. Research in Nursing & Health, 45(5): 569-579. DOI: 10.1002/nur.22251 PMID: 35767425

Bosse, J.D., Clark, K., Arnold, S. (2021). Implementing Trauma Informed Education Practices in Undergraduate Mental Health Nursing Education. Journal of Nursing Education, 60(12): 707-711. DOI: 10.3928/01484834-20211103-02 PMID: 34870506

Jackman, K., Bosse, J. D., Eliason, M., Hughes, T. (2019) Sexual and Gender Minority Health in Nursing Research. Nursing Outlook, 67(1): 21-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2018.10.006 [named “Research Article of the Year, Nursing Outlook, 2020]

*Bosse, J. D. & Chiodo, L. (2016). It’s Complicated: Gender and Sexual Orientation Identity in LGBTQ youth. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25(23-24): 3665–3675. DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13419

Bosse, J. D., Nesteby, A., & Randall, C. (2015). Incorporating Sexual Minority Health into the Health Assessment Class. Journal of Professional Nursing, 31(6): 498-507. DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2017.02.001

A full list of publications can be found here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/jordon.bosse.1/bibliography/public/