Cultural diversity in the Information Age.

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Related Articles Cultural diversity in the Information Age.
Nurs Adm Q. 2001;25(3):83-6
Authors: Simpson RL
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.
PMID: 18193594 [PubMed - in process]


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