Date of Conferral

6-25-2024

Date of Award

June 2024

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Robert Anders

Abstract

In nursing education, both preregistration and continuing professional development, there is an absence of information about the specific needs of transgender people. The practicum site observed that education on the needs of the transgender community was lacking, discussing a discrepancy in the information offered and the scant attention paid to the unique requirements of transgender individuals. The goal of this project was to create a program that would raise staff members’ understanding of the exceptional health care requirements of the transgender population by providing them with an evidence-based assessment screening tool and training on transgender health care for nurses. The educational curriculum, learning resources, and pre- and posttest developed for the project were assessed by three transgender health care specialists using the Lynn model. The experts concluded that all the learning resources and the instructional program were effective teaching tools. The educational program was based on Knowles’s idea of adult learning. The course was completed by 10 participants who are licensed nurses. The likert scale pretest results showed that staff members knew little to nothing about the subject matter, 1meaning knowledgeable and 4 not knowledgably with a mean between 0.77 and 1.77 and a median of 0.75 for every question. The posttest results indicate that the educational intervention achieved the learning objectives because following the educational program intervention, staff felt informed about the material, as evidenced by the mode of 4 for all posttest questions. The project may influence community and health care facility nursing practice by helping nurses evaluate transgender patients.

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