Patient-centered care continues to be a priority for the nursing profession to meet the needs of patients in an individualistic way.The healthcare provided to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people continues to emerge as a priority (Tillman et al., 2016). Registered nurses have professional and ethical obligations to provide quality care to LGBTQ patients just as they would with any other patient population receiving care (Dorsen & Van Devanter, 2016). Despite these calls for patient-centered care, nurses still lack basic nursing knowledge about LGBTQ patient care and healthcare institutions often do not have policies in place to promote equity and fundamental care for these individuals.The acronym LGBTQ is often used as a broad term to capture this community as a whole, yet each specific letter of LGBTQ identifies with persons who have individualized needs. For the purpose of this research, the use of the terms LGBTQ and transgender are used interchangeably to match the current literature. Specifically, transgender is the term commonly used as a reference to any person whose gender identity does not match with their assigned sex

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