...Heritage Assessment Paper Grand Canyon University NRS-429V United States one of the most cultural diverse nation on earth, People from different part of world have come tougher to create this country. So as healthcare professionals nurses has to deal with patient from diverse cultural background. To provide quality care they should be able to understand the cultural heritage. Culture is that which shapes the person. Heritage is made of practices and tradition example like language, norms, behavior, belief, values that are passed from parent to children. This paper will discuss the importance of applying heritage assessment tool to assess health tradition of culturally diverse population. Based on heritage assessment tool this paper addresses the health maintance, health protection, and health restoration of culturally different families of Indian, Philippines and Pakistani, and evaluate and discuss how the families subscribe to these tradition and practices. The author include her own health tradition based on her cultural heritage. Heritage Assessment tool in Evaluating the Need of Whole Person Treating the person as a whole is extremely important in nursing practice. That means nurse assess the person as a whole. To understand fully the nurse should have the knowledge of their culture and heritage. Culture...
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...this paper is to show the reader the usefulness of the Heritage Assessment tool when it is used to evaluate the individual’s needs in relation to culture and tradition. The author of the paper will share with the reader the interviews of families from three different cultures (the first being her own) and explore the common health traditions of their cultures and how the families subscribe to the traditions. Heritage Assessment tool The usefulness of the heritage assessment tool is to give the provider a way to understand the role of culture and traditions and how it affects the way a patient views health and illness. The tool uses simple questions regarding cultural background of an individual such as: the relationship of family members, religious beliefs, ethnic activities and language. At the end of the assessment the nurse will have a better idea of how the individual identifies with a particular culture and traditions. Mexican and Iraqi health culture and traditions The author of this paper is of Mexican heritage. Her grandmother came over from Mexico when she was a small child. The author of the paper was brought up in a large Mexican family and attended a small catholic church where she also went to school. It was important to attend mass several times weekly and ask god to forgive you for your sins. Food and...
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...from all over the world reside in the US. There are many customs, religion, values, beliefs, and so forth, in the US. To be in the healthcare profession, it is vital and necessary to be culturally aware and competent to provide culturally appropriate, holistic care. One of the ways to learn about a person’s heritage is by using the Heritage Assessment (HA). The HA tool has 29 questions and is a reliable method used to collect data on the patients’ traditional heritage. This paper will discuss the usefulness of the Heritage Assessment (HA) tool, this student’s summary of personal learning, this student’s cultural heritage common health traditions, in addition to the differences in health traditions from three different cultures in relation to health maintenance, protection, and restoration. We have to understand our own cultural beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices that are relevant to health and illness before we can understand others (Jarvis, 2012). People have different views on health and illness which is influenced by their cultural beliefs. According to Jarvis (2012), to be culturally competent, one must have knowledge of one’s own personal heritage, the heritage of the patient, nursing profession, and health care system. The Heritage Assessment is a useful tool to build cultural competency by collecting relevant data to assist the healthcare providers to provide better care. The tool assists healthcare providers to bridge the gap to better understand the patients’...
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...Heritage Assessment Tool Samantha Rich Grand Canyon University May 21, 2013 The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is a way to asses an individual’s ethnic, religious, and cultural heritage as well as health traditions. Using this tool allows healthcare providers to deliver high quality patient care as well as develop a therapeutic relationship and healing approach. Being able to deliver high quality care to patients and families is of utmost importance for nurses. In order to be most efficient in the delivery the nurse has to be culturally competent. Being culturally competent encompasses more than just asking where a patient was born. In America, this is due to the fact that a good portion of the population consists of people who have immigrated from all over the world (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). This paper discusses the usefulness of using the HAT when evaluating three culturally diverse families. The Italian Americans, Spanish Americans, and Filipino Americans will be compared to identify the differences in health protection, health maintenance, health restoration, common health traditions and practices. The HAT assessment consists of twenty-nine questions that focus specifically on an individual’s cultural background, religious practices, beliefs, and family relations. By using the Heritage Assessment Tool the nurse learns about the patient’s culture which assists in better caring for a culturally wide range of patients (Saver, 2007). Not only does this...
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...person’s traditions, values, and beliefs as these influence the patient’s behavior and attitudes towards healthcare practices. “A cultural competent health system must incorporate the importance of cultural assessment and provide nurses with tools that will help them with their planning care and treating patients from different cultures” p.16 (Green & Reinckens, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the usefulness of the Heritage Assessment Tool to evaluate the needs of a person as a whole; identify and evaluate common health practices based on cultural beliefs and values of three different families from Mexico, Philippines and China and how they subscribe to these traditions and practices to address their familys’ health maintenance, health protection and health recovery. The writer will include her culture as well. Efficacy of Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment Tool is useful to evaluate the cultural needs and health traditions of a person. The assessment consists on a set of questions that explores a person’s ethnicity, traditions, language, religion, food, and family values. By applying the Heritage Assessment, the nurse can obtain cultural information regarding religious beliefs, language preference and the degree of acculturation. Interpretation of the results are as follow: the greater the number of positive responses, the greater the person’s identification with his or her heritage. This cultural...
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...(ANA) states, “knowledge of cultural diversity is vital at all levels of nursing practice…nurses need to understand: how cultural group groups define health and illness; what cultural groups do to maintain wellness; what cultural groups believe to be the causes of illness; and how healers cure and care for members of cultural groups.” (1991). The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is comprised of 29 questions utilized to investigate a given patient’s ethnic, religious and cultural background. The assessment tool assists with building trusting and therapeutic nurse-patient relationships that will ensure care standards are met (Spector, 2009). HAT is a resource that will be most useful in determining the influence the family, ethnic and religious communities play in a patient’s health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. With adequate knowledge, nurses are able to offer medical care that is complementary to traditional beliefs or treatment (Spector, 2009). The following paper will discuss the usefulness of applying the HAT when evaluating three culturally diverse families. Families from Vietnam, Lebanon, and Sicily were interviewed utilizing the heritage assessment tool and identified differences in health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration will be discussed. Also included in the paper, the author will discuss common health traditions based on cultural heritage and the effect of westernized...
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...traditions of the patient’s belief system to deliver care that meets the patients needs. Cultural beliefs can have a huge impact on the adherence to treatment regimen, effectiveness of treatment and willingness to learn on the patient’s behalf. A culturally competent nurse fosters a mutually respectful relationship with the individual, provides a non-judgmental attitude to answers and traditions and seeks to include culturally important aspects into nursing care. Heritage is defined as “something handed down from one’s ancestors or the past, as a characteristic, a culture, tradition, the rights, burdens or status resulting from being born in a certain time or place; a birthright.” ("heritage", n.d.). The definition of culture is “a particular set of customs, morals, codes and traditions from a specific time and place.”(("culture", n.d.). This paper looks at a Hispanic individual/family from Mexico, Asian individual/family from Taiwan and an African-American individual/family from the United States and their cultural views and habits...
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...People from all over the world are here with different cultures. As United States has increasingly cultural diversity -Asian are 3.6 %, one tenth % of US population will be foreign born by 2050 (Gregory Juckett, 2005). It has become very important to understand and respect this various cultural beliefs especially in the healthcare system. All cultures have equal values and are different from one another. Heritage Assessment is a tool to help us know about one beliefs and the health tradition. Heritage tool help the author recognized different cultures thoughts, beliefs. This tool helps to evaluate the similarities and differences between different cultures. No one becomes culturally competent overnight or with one or two hours of training; certain attitudes need to be learned, skills transmitted, and knowledge absorbed (California Endowment, 2003). People from different culture have different beliefs about their health traditions. They have a different approach for protection, maintenance, and restoration of their health. This paper will compare the similarities and differences regarding health practice methods among the Hindus, Muslims, and White cultures. This author, Hindu female from Nepal, completed a heritage assessment. Author interviewed the first generation Muslim female born in Pakistan and a Caucasian female from USA. The author interviewed with both women noticed the differences between beliefs on health Protection, health maintenance and health restoration...
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...Learning and Cognition Paper Salma El Gharabawy PSY 390 University of Phoenix Everyday, people tend to learn something new in their lives; whether through watching other people or through their own experiences, people learn. We all “know” things, and naturally perform a lot of actions, meaning we exhibit in a lot of behaviors. Ever stop to think where all of this came from? Some are innate, while others are only acquired actively; therefore, any knowledge or behavior that we have now and were NOT born with, was one way or the other, “learned”. Learning is an integral part of all living things’ lives; some certain behaviors we are born with, innate (genetically predisposed at birth or maybe even during conception) such as certain reflexes and some specific species behaviors; while others are only gained through learning. Learning, in the field of psychology has been best described as “ . . . .a relatively permanent change in behavior or in behavioral potentiality that results from experience and cannot be attributed to temporary body states such as those induced by illness, fatigue, or drugs” (Hergenhahn & Olson, 2005). That said, in order to get a complete understanding of the mechanism of learning, in regards to the psychology field, it is really important for a person to first understand the specific role that is played by behavior, in learning, the different types of learning as well as the relationship between the two; learning and cognition. Needless to say...
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...about a patient based upon their exterior, but a nurse must learn what lies within, in order to provide effective care and teaching. According to Edelman & Kudzma, “the culture and beliefs of people can also influence health action.” (Edelman, 2014, 5) With this in mind, a nurse must have some understanding of the general beliefs and values a person may have, based on their cultural identity and then delve further into the individual to ascertain their level of identification to their cultural heritage. It is a mistake to think that a full understanding of the whole person can be gained through assumptions based upon generalized knowledge of their ethnic/cultural heritage. Family Interviews Three individuals were interviewed for this paper. One was from Jamaica, one was from Bangladesh, and one was from Cuba. The individuals were very open to the idea a sharing their culture and heritage with this writer. Interestingly, it was not until the third attempt at communication that all three individuals shared information regarding their personal health...
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...Cultures Grand Canyon University: NUR-429V October 11, 2015 Grand Canyon University: <Course> America has always been known as the “melting pot”. Representing the meshing or “melting” together of cultures in a vast area creating a diverse society. Each culture or ethnic group has traditions and ways of belief that affect their decisions on how they treat illness, disease and health. Cultural values shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status, how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek health care (Edelman & Mandle, 2009, p. 34) Health professionals need to be cultural competent, understanding and appreciating one’s beliefs to “work and function effectively with people having different values, beliefs, and ideas about nursing, health, caring, wellness, illness, death, and disabilities (Edelman & Mandle, 2009).” For this paper, three families of different cultures and or ethnic groups where interviewed using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This paper will highlight areas of the Arab American, Panamanian American and Asian American regarding how maintaining their health, protecting their health and restoring their health is influenced by cultural values. The Heritage Assessment Tool is comprised of 29 questions that gives an individual, such as a health care professional, the ability to see the person as a whole when...
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...doctors, barristers and solicitors, teachers, social workers Lower managerial and professional e.g. nurses, actors and musicians, police, soldiers Intermediate e.g. secretaries, clerks Small employers and own account workers e.g. publicans, playgroup leaders, farmers, taxi drivers Lower supervisory, craft and related occupations e.g. printers, plumbers, butchers, train drivers Semi-routine occupations e.g. shop assistants, traffic wardens, hairdressers Routine occupations e.g. waiters, road sweepers, cleaners, couriers Never worked and long term unemployed . The source of this information should be given under the Table In an attempt to identify the main determinants of health and illness, research studies have often...
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...Abstract This paper analyzes what epigenetics precisely is as well as the effects of epigenetics on our human body throughout time. I further my analysis by going in depth on the effects epigenetics can have on a child going all the way back to their grandparent’s medical history and life experiences. The different articles provide a better understanding on how epigenetics can impede a person drastically, but also ensuring us that scientist are working efficiently to find out ways to manipulate the epigenome. This paper examines my own personal Family History Questionnaire findings and how they are relative to epigenetics. The last part of this paper explores a Bluzone Life Expectancy Questionnaire which identifies the longevity of my life by asking me various questions about everyday experiences and how I can improve my health. Life expectancy Epigenetics is defined as superior to the genome (Epigenetics, 2007). It simply commands the genome on how to work, how much to work and when to react in a specific way. The epigenome tells our cells precisely what type of skin, hair type, and heart we should have. Twins may be born exactly comparable with the same gene structure, but the epigenome is the part of a person’s gene structure that is altered from the day they are born. A genome can be linked to a computer’s hardware that makes up a computer while the epigenome is seen as the software the runs the computer entirely. Epigenome can change a cell just by a person’s diet...
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...activities, religious beliefs and practices and also health and illness beliefs. In this paper, the author will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of a person as a whole. Three different cultures including authors will be discussed about the health maintenance, health promotion, and health restoration. The author will also evaluate health traditions which are based on her own other two families. The evaluation of different culture will reveal similarities and differences in traditions, which can help nurses to provide holistic approach towards care delivery to gain optimal health outcomes. Heritage assessment tool is a very good way in finding out patients’ cultural values and beliefs towards health maintenance, protection, and restoration for a nurse to take a holistic approach towards providing care and education to the patient. In summarizing what the author has learned from the Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is that, the author and her husband both were born in a Muslim country and lived there for the best part of their childhood. Her husband migrated to US when he was fifteen and the author migrated to US at the age of twenty-two. Their parents and grand parents are from the same country and share the same cultural and religious beliefs and practices. The author and her family belongs to a religious institution and celebrates the holidays and festivals by cooking traditional food and invites family for meals and celebrations like singing...
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...and spiritual beliefs which in turn helps with determining traditional health methods such as health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. It also helps in opening a pathway for effective communication between the patient and health care provider to understand ones culture, beliefs, as well as their health traditions. The greater the person’s identification with a traditional heritage, the greater number of positive responses they will have on the assessment (Spector, 2009). This paper will compare three heritages Hispanic, African American, and Chinese looking at the difference between health methods and traditions and will also assess the author’s heritage. Health maintenance is how one manages their health by preventing and promoting good health. The Hispanic cultures hold a very strong religious belief. The majority come from a Catholic background and relies heavily on God and prayer. They sometimes view good health as a reward from God and illness as a punishment for wrongdoing. Hispanics are very family oriented going beyond the nuclear family and they usually live very close to one another, having regular contact. They rely on each other for support emotionally and physically with all struggles including illnesses. Hispanics will include all family in decision making about their health needs. African Americans on the other hand are not as close to their distance relatives as Hispanics, usually only close with immediate family...
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