The poster assignment: a connected teaching strategy for increasing student comfort with issues of sexuality

The poster assignment has proven to be the most successful strategy designed by a group of nurse educators seeking to facilitate nursing student comfort and confidence with sexuality related content. Through the use of a process involving both structured and informal interaction opportunities, the context was set for students to build knowledge, examine values and attitudes, and develop helping skills, necessary building blocks for preparing students to assist patients with sexual problems and concerns. The process is described and discussed with specific examples given from the authors' experiences with this non-traditional learning activity.