Other Titles

Promoting diversity in nursing curricula

Abstract

The number of transgendered people in the United States has increased 100% over the last six years. Findings from a phenomenological study reveal the transgender experience. Nurse educators, knowledgeable about this population, its experience, and health disparities can educate nursing students and facilitate improved care for this vulnerable group.

Author Details

Holly Carter, MSN, RN, FNP-BC; Stacey J. Jones, DNP, FNP-BC; Amy Yoder Spurlock, PhD, RN -- School of Nursing, Troy University, Troy, Alabama, USA; Noreen E. M. Lennen, PhD, RN; Eula W. Pines, PhD, DNP, PMHCNS-BC -- School of Nursing, Troy University - Phenix City, Phenix City, Alabama, USA; Stephanie L. Lewis, PhD, RN, CNE, Troy University - Phenix City, Phenix City, Alabama, USA; Shawna "Missy" Mason, DNP, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, School of Nursing, Troy University, Dothan, Alabama, USA

Sigma Membership

Iota Theta

Lead Author Affiliation

Troy University, Troy, Alabama, USA

Type

Presentation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Lived Experience, Nursing Curricula, Transgender Persons

Conference Name

Nursing Education Research Conference 2018

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International,National League for Nursing

Conference Location

Washington, DC, USA

Conference Year

2018

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

Abstract Review Only: Reviewed by Event Host

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Additional Files

download (141 kB)

Share

COinS
 

Translating the lived experience of transgender persons to nursing curricula

Washington, DC, USA

The number of transgendered people in the United States has increased 100% over the last six years. Findings from a phenomenological study reveal the transgender experience. Nurse educators, knowledgeable about this population, its experience, and health disparities can educate nursing students and facilitate improved care for this vulnerable group.