Diversity issues in the homecare setting

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.