title: Meeting the challenge of the new millennium: caring for culturally diverse patients.
abstract: The world is shrinking, and as a consequence, the United States is changing rapidly. In this new environment, health care providers must navigate a new cultural terrain and develop new skills to provide appropriate care for patients from increasingly diverse backgrounds. The new millennium demographic data of the United States and the essential elements of cultural assessment are necessary to understand how patient care should be approached in an increasingly diverse population.
authors.affiliation: National University, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Margaret K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: J Taylor
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Harden
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012067:Religion; D012945:Social Values; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States