Introduction:

Nurses have a fundamental role in the prevention of incurable sexually-transmitted infections; however, for their performance to be effective, quality education with adequate infrastructure is required.

Objective:

To map out the worldwide studies that address the teaching of incurable sexually-transmitted infections to undergraduate nursing students.

Methodology:

Scoping review protocol according to the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology. The search strategy will be applied to the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, Web of Science and Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences databases, as well as to the gray literature databases (e.g., Research Gate, OpenGrey). This document will address those studies addressing the teaching of incurable sexually-transmitted infections aimed at undergraduate nursing students around the world; it will also consider the public access studies from 1981 to 2020 available. Two independent reviewers will screen the articles according to pre-defined inclusion criteria; they will also extract and analyze the data. The presentation of data will be through figures and tables according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews.

Results:

The results from this study will grant broad knowledge about the teaching of incurable sexually-transmitted infections to nursing students, as well as the methodologies used and their effectiveness.

Conclusion:

This study can contribute to the improvement of methodologies, infrastructure, and teaching curricula of incurable sexually-transmitted infections to nursing students.