Transforming Nursing Education: Infusing Gender Sensitive Care Into Healthcare

by Christina Rodriguez

Overview

Trans and gender-diverse patients face significant barriers to respectful, comprehensive healthcare. Provider ignorance shouldn't be one of them. TRANSforming Nursing

Education supplies the context to help readers understand the gaps and missteps in providing healthcare to this marginalized population and explains how we can better

treat these patients.

Author Christine Rodriguez tackles tough subjects-and tough statistics-head on. This no-nonsense guide is packed with inclusive case studies, immersive simulation-based

scenarios, checklists, and ready-to-use templates on everything from social transitioning to hormone therapy to surgeries and potential complications, all with thoughtful, reflective

questions to guide readers in their understanding of the gender-diverse community. The book answers key questions, like:

• What is the difference between sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation?
• How can we improve healthcare education and onboarding to better serve trans and gender-diverse patients?
• What is binary language, and how does it impact trans and gender-diversepeople?
• What barriers in healthcare settings marginalize trans and gender-diverse patients, and how can we be more inclusive and better meet their needs?
• What types of medical and surgical interventions are available for individuals
• who want to affirm their gender identity?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646480821
Publisher:	Sigma Theta Tau International
Publication date:	10/25/2023
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Christine Rodriguez, DNP, MDiv, MA, APRN, FNP-BC, FAAN, FNYAM, she/they/ella, serves as faculty and the Assistant Dean of Simulation and Clinical Innovation at Yale University School of Nursing. She is also an affiliate faculty member at the Yale Institute for Global Health. Rodriguez holds a bachelor of science in nursing and applied professional studies from Nova Southeastern University, a certificate in faith community nursing from the University of Southern Indiana, a master of arts in theological studies and a master of divinity from Liberty University, and a master of science in nursing in the family nurse practitioner track and a doctor of nursing practice from the University of Connecticut. She is seeking to complete her post-master's certificate in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at theUniversity of New Hampshire.

Marci Bowers, M.D. of Burlingame, California, is acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of Gender Affirmation Surgery and is the first woman worldwide to hold a personal transgender history while performing transgender surgery. She is also the first US surgeon to learn the technique of functional clitoral restoration after Female Genital Mutilation/cutting (FGM/c).Dr. Bowers is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 29 years' experience in Women's Healthcare. She is a University of Minnesota Medical School graduate and former class and student body president. Her Ob/Gyn was at the the University of Washington. She continued in Seattle as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at The Polyclinic and Swedish Medical Center, then joined Dr. Stanley Biber in Trinidad, Colorado in 2003, redefining US transgender surgery.