An Innovative Teaching Modality to Promote Proficient Gender-Affirming Care

Nurse educators are tasked with preparing the future workforce to address the challenges of a complex and diverse healthcare environment, including those of the LGBTQ2+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit) community. Compared with heterosexual and cisgender patients (individuals who identify with the sex assigned at birth), LGTBQ2+ people face notable health disparities. These include increased morbidity and mortality, poorer health outcomes, and higher rates of certain illnesses, especially in LGTBQ2+ youth (Grant et  al., 2011; Hafeez, 2017; Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Bi et al., 2020 2021; Sherman et al., 2021).
Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research