Integration of transgender health: A multi-modal approach

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersexed (LGBTQI+) community can benefit from access to evidence-based health care, social services, justice, and equality. A significant challenge that nurses and educators have is a lack of knowledge, enlightenment, and clinical experience necessary to provide equitable and evidenced based healthcare, specifically to transgender and gender diverse individuals. As this popula-tion continues to flourish, Associates Degree (ADN) prepared nurses will be called upon to render care fre-quently, so curricula must be adjusted. The objective of this quality improvement project was to emphasize how a multimodal education approach can expand knowledge and ease in caring for this community. The methodology included one in-class presentation and a Success Coaching Event that presented a didactic edu-cation module, a lived experience speaker, a film depicting bad versus good communication during a clinical encounter, and a post didactic discussion panel. The quasi-experimental design supported the success of the intervention, evaluated by comparing pre-and post-test survey scores as well as results from a final exam. This new curricular framework can be implemented in all ADN programs where nurses learn basics commu-nication and assessment. (c) 2022 Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.