Nursing staff identified a lack of skills and knowledge regarding care for people undergoing genital affirmation surgery. This quality improvement project aimed to provide nurses with hands-on education and experience to increase knowledge and self-efficacy in caring for post genital affirming surgical patients.

Simulation and deliberate practice were combined by using an electronic education module along with physical anatomic models. Data were collected using pre and posteducational intervention surveys.

Statistically significant improvements were found in nurses’ knowledge and self-efficacy.

Through the use of models, the nurses obtained the hands-on training needed to care for this vulnerable population without using patients as teaching tools.