title: Improving self-directed learning/intercultural competencies: breaking the silence.
abstract: Nurse educators need to develop innovative, technological curricula that foster intercultural competencies as essential components of a university education and break the silence with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) health. Goals are to foster using these competencies to make LGBTQ content explicit in nursing curricula and in their professional organizations to promote equality and lessen disparities in this group.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Professor and International Coordinator (Dr Kirkpatrick), Professor of Midwifery (Dr Jesse), and Professor and Dean (Dr Brown), College of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Senior Lecturer (Dr Esterhuizen), School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mary K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Kirkpatrick
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Esterhuizen
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jesse
authors.forename: Sylvia T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001727:Bisexuality; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D018451:Homosexuality, Male; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D063106:Transgender Persons