Od-041163 Nursing Considerations Post Gender Affirmation Surgery (Vaginoplasty)
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Credit
Description
This Course provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills to deliver safe, respectful, and evidence-based care to patients following gender affirmation surgery. It emphasizes clinical considerations, post-operative monitoring, complication management, patient education, and culturally competent communication. Completion of this module is a prerequisite for attending the upcoming in-person education event and is required annually as part of nursing competency validation.
Doctor Gabriel Del Corral, M.D, FACS, Director of the MedStar Center for Gender Affirmation shares important Nursing considerations for the care of patients following gender affirmation surgery and highlights complications that should be promptly identified and reported.
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- Implement practices necessary to promote patient safety and improve outcomes for wound healing.
- Incorporate current information regarding Post Gender Affirmation Surgery (Vaginoplasty) considerations into your plan of care
- Provide nursing care to Post Gender Affirmation Surgery (Vaginoplasty) patients.