Cultural diversity in the Information Age.
The Information Age has seen many technological developments in medicine. Technology has not, however, replaced the essence of human caring. A cultural approach to medicine usually focuses on diversity among populations. Yet there is a counterpoint to this cultural approach that is unique to the Information Age-the widening of the cultural gap between nurses and physicians through the use of electronic records. Nursing interventions and outcomes are typically not documented in automated information systems, due to a lack of a nursing-specific language. This article explores the diversity of roles within a multi-disciplinary care team and focuses on the requirements of a language from the informatics perspective.
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Nursing Informatics, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D014481:United States; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled