title: Diversity issues in the homecare setting.
abstract: As this nation becomes increasingly more culturally diverse and seeks to compete in a global health care market, it is incumbent upon the nursing profession to prepare high-tech homecare nurses who are experts in their ability to make appropriate culturologic assessments of the clients whom they provide care. The culturologically competent high-tech homecare nurse is one who is able to obtain value-free culturologic information and who utilizes that information in the development of culturally sensitive plans of care. This article has provided a framework, with supporting rationale, to assist the high-tech homecare nurse in the gathering of culture-specific data from clients whose care delivery occurs in the richly diverse home setting.
authors.affiliation: Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: McNeal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009737:Nursing Records; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*