Case study on Nurse practitioner course: Gender reassignment surgery​

QUESTION 2. 

 

What are the unknowns? List all the subjective and objective data you need.

 

ANSWER 2. 

 

Unknowns: Subjective and objective data

 

Subjective data: For giving treatment to this person, information about the genitals of this person are required. For a man to become a woman, testes removal is a very important step. Logically this should be done only if the person is sterile as a man, and his testes are very small.

 

Further steps involve the construction of vagina, breasts, and curvaceous hips are required. Removal of diminishment of Adam’s apple is done via hormone therapy.

 

Objective data: All these treatments require the complete medical history and family history of the patient. Voice pitch and facial hair have to be controlled throughout the life. So, hormone treatment will/should be continued throughout life.