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Cultural Competency
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Discrimination and the LGBTQ+ Community

Builds nursing skills to recognize discrimination affecting LGBTQ+ people, provide affirming care, respond to safety concerns, and reduce barriers across healthcare settings.

A registered nurse speaks privately at eye level with an LGBTQ+ adult patient in a calm clinical room while reviewing an individualized care plan.
Contact hours
2
Format
Self-paced, online
Last reviewed
Sep 19, 2026

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$5 per contact hour · 2 contact hours

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Course Purpose

Builds nursing skills to recognize discrimination affecting LGBTQ+ people, provide affirming care, respond to safety concerns, and reduce barriers across healthcare settings.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 2 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

This course examines how interpersonal, institutional, and structural discrimination affects the health and healthcare experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people. After completing the course, nurses will be able to use respectful terminology, collect clinically relevant information without assumptions, identify discrimination and violence, respond to unsafe practices, and connect patients with appropriate clinical and community resources.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

  1. Differentiate sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics, and related clinical terminology.
  2. Identify interpersonal, institutional, and structural forms of discrimination that can affect LGBTQ+ patients and families.
  3. Apply trauma-informed and affirming communication during assessment, documentation, care planning, and discharge.
  4. Assess LGBTQ+ patients for violence, coercion, housing instability, mental health concerns, and barriers to healthcare without stereotyping.
  5. Describe evidence-based nursing responses to conversion practices, discriminatory conduct, and denial of medically indicated care.
  6. Develop an individualized plan to reduce barriers and support equitable follow-up care.

Policy Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the policies of FastCEForLess.com. This course should be used for informational purposes only and should not be used to diagnose, treat, prescribe, recommend, or initiate therapies or treatments in any setting. This course is copyrighted by Fast CE For Less, Inc. and may not be replicated, copied, or dispersed without written consent.

Disclosures

Fast CE For Less, Inc. and its authors have no disclosures. There is no commercial support.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Discrimination and the LGBTQ+ Community.

Course outline

9 sections · finish in any order across devices

  1. 1

    Introduction

  2. 2

    Violence

  3. 3

    Parenting

  4. 4

    Gay Conversion Therapy

  5. 5

    Housing Discrimination

  6. 6

    Public Accommodations

  7. 7

    Unequal Healthcare

  8. 8

    Criminal Justice

  9. 9

    Conclusion

References

The full reference list is included inside the course, after the Conclusion.

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