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April 27-28, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
19th Global Nursing Education Conference
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Global Nursing Education 2017
April 27-28, 2017
Educating and evaluating military graduate nursing students’ and military medical students’ attitudes and
knowledge of LGBT healthcare
Eric Pauli
Old Dominion University, USA
The US Military repealed the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy five years ago. In July 2016, the military lifted a ban on transgendered
service members, effectively allowing Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered (LGBT) service members the right to openly serve.
Despite this action, the military has not developed or deployed specific education across the Military Healthcare System regarding
healthcare disparities and needs of LGBT service members and their families. The purpose of this research is to know the effectiveness
of an interdisciplinary seminar on changing military graduate nursing students’ and military medical students’ attitudes and
knowledge of LGBT individuals and their healthcare needs. A 17-item survey was administered to a sample of 200 students before
and after a class on sexual diversity. Findings show improvement on all questions with statistically significant improvement noted for
knowledge of LGBT healthcare disparities. More education like this may be warranted.
Biography
Eric Pauli is an active-duty Navy Nurse who completed his MSN in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program (PMHNP) at the University of
Washington in 2008 and is currently enrolled as a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student in the Nurse Executive Program at Old Dominion University. He
serves as Assistant Professor and Director for Clinical Education in the PMHNP-DNP Program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He
has published articles in two peer-reviewed journals on using simulation in psychiatric mental health nursing education and meeting the challenges of training for
interdisciplinary care.
Eric Pauli, J Nurs Care 2017, 6:2 (Suppl)