Inclusion and diversity in fertility nursing

Diversity and inclusion in fertility nursing

Learn more about how those working within the fertility sector, including non-clinical team members, have a crucial part to play in tackling inequalities and empowering everyone to feel welcome, included and valued.

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Available to RCN members

Who is it this resource for?

This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.

What will you learn?

  • introduction to infertility and the need to have supportive and inclusive information
  • infertility and the LGBTQI+ community
  • surrogacy arrangements: straight (traditional), host (gestational)
  • learning disabilities and fertility care
  • minority ethnic groups
  • differences in patient experience across the fertility sector
  • what clinics and individual health care practitioners can do to improve services
  • links to publications from the RCN Fertility Nursing Forum
  • further reading and resources.

Resource last reviewed

15 Jul 2024

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