The effect of a situation model nursing education action program on gender-bias awareness and gender-friendliness barriers in novice nursing students.
AIM
This study presents a workshop on the Situation Model Nursing Education Action program, examines how to promote gender awareness and decrease barriers related to differences in gender friendliness through the implementation of this program and tracks the trends of the relevant variables.


DESIGN
Pre- and post-observations and a cohort study were conducted.


METHODS
A total of 58 nursing students (42 females and 16 males) were included. Nursing students were offered a gender-care intervention as two 90-minute workshops and surveys that measure gender awareness and gender friendliness were administered.


RESULTS
The results concerned gender-bias awareness and gender-friendliness barriers scores across the four weeks of the program intervention, with the generalized estimated difference score compared with the Week 1 baseline. Mean student scores showed that gender-bias awareness was significantly decreased at Week 2 (p < .001) and Week 4 (p < .001) and that mean gender-friendliness barrier scores significantly declined at Week 4 (p < .001).


CONCLUSIONS
The findings indicate that a faculty professional learning community workshop that facilitates intentional behavioral change can help faculty to become aware of gender bias, which can improve students' gender awareness through clinical case discussion and lead to a decline in barriers to students' gender friendliness.
['Pai|Hsiang-Chu|HC|', 'Wu|Pei-Ling|PL|', 'Hsu|Wen-Yi|WY|', 'Hung|Chao-An|CA|', 'Liu|Nai-Yu|NY|', 'Yen|Wen-Jiuan|WJ|']
D001364:Awareness D015331:Cohort Studies D004506:Education, Nursing D005260:Female D006801:Humans D008297:Male D063507:Sexism D013338:Students, Nursing D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Program Nursing student Gender awareness Evaluation Gender mainstreaming Professional socialization