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Health Care Provision To Transgender Individuals; Understanding Clinician Attitudes And Knowledge Acquisition, Leo Isaac Kline
Health Care Provision To Transgender Individuals; Understanding Clinician Attitudes And Knowledge Acquisition, Leo Isaac Kline
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The Institute of Medicine report of 2011 defined Transgender Specific Health Needs as one of four priority research areas. While there is research asserting that health care providers (HCPs) do not have adequate training in providing competent care to transgender patients, there are no studies to date assessing HCPs' gender identity attitudes and their willingness to learn the Standards of Care (SOC) developed for this patient population. According to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, as of 2010, 52% of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) were practicing in primary care settings. As more than half of NPs practice in primary …