5. Wild Card
- Date: 2024-10-25
- Concurrent Session: Concurrent Session D
- Time: 8:45- 9:30 am
- Room:
- Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
- Focus: Balance between both (e.g. Presentation of a best-practice guideline that combines research evidence, policy issues and practical steps for implementation)
- Target Audience: Leadership (ED, clinical lead, board chair, board member, etc.) Clinical providers Representatives of stakeholder/partner organizations
Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to:
- Understand the newly developed pharmacy lead patient education modules on gender-affirming hormone therapy
- Discuss how leveraging the pharmacy team in your clinic can help reduce wait times, optimize clinic visits and provide access to care to more clients seeking gender affirming care
- Develop a framework for evaluating client knowledge, skills, and confidence with gender-affirming hormone therapy after attending a workshop
Summary/Abstract:
Gender affirming care is needed now more than ever before, with approximately 1 in 300 people in Canada identifying as transgender or non-binary. Many gender diverse people are accessing primary care services for help with their gender transition, specifically looking for assistance accessing gender-affirming hormone therapy – but clinicians often do not have the knowledge or confidence to provide education on transition related hormone therapy. At the same time, clients do not have access to the information they need to make these important informed decisions, often getting this information from unreliable sources on the internet. In this presentation, we will outline the development and showcase the patient education modules developed by a team of pharmacists on gender-affirming hormone therapy. The aim of these patient education modules is to provide patients with evidence-based information about gender-affirming hormone therapy allowing them to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Each session focuses on the gender-affirming medication, indications, uses and changes that can occur while taking the medication. An interdisciplinary model for gender-affirming primary care is key to supporting gender diverse people as they start their transition. Engaging pharmacists into the program not only supports the patients but also provides additional support to the clinicians providing this care. During this presentation we will help guide clinicians through what conversations to have with clients regarding hormone therapy, tips on starting your own workshop, how a workshop can improve efficiency at the clinic, resources you can access and tools to evaluate client knowledge, skills, and confidence.
Presenter:
- Tayyaba Mawani BSc, PharmD, RPh, CDE | Pharmacist, Manager of Nursing Services, Queen Square Family Health Team Queen Square Family Health Team
- Erin Ziegler NP-PHC, PhD | Nurse Practitioner, Lead, Gender Services Program , Queen Square Family Health Team Queen Square Family Health Team