Role-play simulation to teach nursing students how to provide culturally sensitive care to transgender patients

Unveiling Undergraduate Nursing Students' Knowledge About Trans People

“…Only twenty-nine completed the post-test evaluation, reporting that they recognized the importance of including gender in the Nursing assessment and the importance of word choice when talking to the patients. The results also indicated that the students did not feel prepared to ask difficult questions about gender identity 17 . In this sense, it becomes fundamental to consider that social behavior is shaped by Western approval based on heterocisnormativity, which encompasses an entire system of representations and self-representations coded in norms, rules, moral paradigms and corporeal models, thus configuring a sex-gender system, delimiting the fields of acceptable, sayable and comprehensible 18 .…”

A Web-Based Gender-Sensitive Educational Simulation on Vocational Rehabilitation for Service Providers Working With Youth With Disabilities: Pilot Evaluation

“…Offering training on this topic could assist with addressing health and social inequalities and optimizing patient outcomes [ 9 ]. Educational simulations, such as this one, have the potential to support clinicians with recognizing their own cultural biases, prejudices, and assumptions in a safe environment without risking stigmatization of a patient in a clinical setting [ 32 ].…”

“…Our pilot findings suggest that the simulation has the potential to be a helpful tool to equip health care providers to recognize their own biases and use appropriate language. Other research also shows that simulations could help to reduce discomfort and discrimination in health care for gender minority patients by equipping clinicians with sensitive and inclusive communication tools in a risk-free environment where they can learn to provide care to a vulnerability population [ 32 ].…”

“…It was encouraging to see that participants were aware of how gender operates at an institutional level and acknowledged how power dynamics at a leadership level could influence practice at the everyday individual level (eg, forms that are binary male or female). Other research on gender-sensitive approaches using simulation training in nursing found that it helped nurses to reflect on the importance of inclusionary hospital policies to protect the rights and dignity of people who are trans [ 32 ]. Previous studies indicate that a critical element of creating a more inclusive and welcoming environment for the LGBTQSi+ community involves adopting antidiscrimination policies and ensuring that they feel supported [ 52 ].…”

“…Our intervention involved an educational simulation, which is an interactive pedagogy allowing clinicians and service providers to practice assessment, patient care, and difficult conversations in a risk-free environment [ 32 ]. Educational simulations are considered a gold standard for skill development and learning and can be a valuable pedagogical tool for interprofessional training, while having the potential to improve patient outcomes [ 33 - 36 ].…”