Your guide to the gender identity nursing specialty
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Your guide to the gender identity nursing specialty

Erin Dean Health journalist

Nurses working in gender health services support patients to access a range of care, both surgical and non-surgical. Find out about the role and the skills required

Gender services care for people with gender incongruence, the term used for a discrepancy between an individual’s birth-assigned sex and their gender identity, or how they feel about their gender.

Nursing Standard. 39, 1, 28-29. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.1.28.s15

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