...Heritage Assessment Tool: Evaluation of Different Cultures and Individual Views of Health Micaela Simon Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion 429V Melanie Escobar RN MSN August 31, 2012 Heritage Assessment Tool: Evaluation of different Cultures and Individual Views of Health The Heritage Assessment Tool can be used as as a reliable tool to assess, health maintenance, protection and restoration of individual cultural beliefs. This evaluation helps meet the needs of different patient populations to provide quality holistic care. The purpose of this paper is to explore the Hispanic, Native American, Chinese, and the author’s own personal cultural beliefs from perspectives of health traditions, maintenance, promotion and restoration of health. The objectives are to identify different families and the own common health traditions based of the cultural heritage. Evaluate and discuss how the families ascribe to traditions and practices. The evaluation of these different cultures reveal similarities and differences in traditions that may help provide holistic optimal health delivery. The definition of cultural awareness is an individual’s awareness of their understanding between themselves and other backgrounds, attitudes to health and specific cultural values (Cultural awareness, n.d). Cultural competence refers to knowledge and skills that must be obtained to care for culturally different backgrounds (Spector, 2008). The Heritage Assessment Tool...
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... Nursing is a profession which plays vital role in improving the health care system by promoting, protecting and optimizing health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviating suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response and an advocate in care of individuals, families, communities and populations(ANA). INSTITUTION OF MEDICINE (IOM) was founded in 1970. In 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(RWJF) and Institution of medicine (IOM) formed a two year committee to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. Today healthcare faces serious issues like child obesity, influenza(H1N1), HIV-AIDS, IOM is the entity that is advising on how to improve the health care system to meet the increased issue as it pertains to saving life and disease prevention and THE EFFECT OF IOM REPORT ON NURSING EDUCATION Nursing education is a crucial issue according to IOM report, Improved education system is paramount to increase nursing competence ,Advanced nursing degree provide nurses with more knowledge in their area of specialization, improve quality and efficient care for patient. The old educational system is not sufficient to meet the demand of modern era which have become more complex, requiring technological tools and information management systems while coordinating care in collaboration with the health professionals. To respond to these increased trends...
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...Health Status and Health Care Services in China with comparison to the United States HSM310 Introduction to Health Services Management Course Project December 12, 2010 A health care system refers to the comprehensive organization, structures and strategies through which Medicare and health care is made available by the government to its citizens. A health care system is a product of countries politics. It is a nations system of governance that will dictate upon the most convenient model of health care to adopt. There is no universally acceptable method, and in adopting each; a government has to take into account a variety of factors, which would range from available finances vis-a-vis the total population. A comparison of two models of health care or two countries approach to the provision of health services has to encompass the core issues of financing and health care management. Health sector is the most vital industry in a country and how effectively or ineffectively it is handled goes forth to reveal the social, political and economic policies of a country towards its citizens. A biggest investment of a government has to be in its people and what better way to do it than to invest in the health sector. The purpose of this paper is to focus at the comparison of the United States health care system with that of China. It will focus at financing and management of both systems, how they compare and contrast as well as the merits and demerits of each. Despite the fact...
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...Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Since the early 1980s, the U.S. health care system has experienced a rapid growth in the sector of health care information technology. This growth can be viewed as an attempt to standardize our fragmented health care system. The health care information technology is no longer an option but a necessity to be compliant with the mandated federal regulations. President George W. Bush in 2004 asked health care providers to implement Electronic Health Records (EHR) by 2014. The Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) also joined this initiative by asking health care providers to be compliant with the new legislation. Many community-based physician practices previously reluctant to embrace technology are realizing the benefits of the health care information systems, such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medical records (EMR), tele-medicine, complex disease management, and automated billing systems. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast a contemporary health care facility with a health care facility of 20 years ago. Additionally, the paper will identify at least two major events and technological advantages that influenced the current health care information system (HCIS) practices. Definition of Health Care Information Systems Prior to discussing the evolution of HCIS in the last two decades, it would...
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...socializing with friends, family especially grandchildren, and maintain a sustainable health as one journey’s to dying. Meanwhile, human growth and development study made us understand that the race of one’s life is in stages from the point of conception to an infant, to a childhood stage, to an adolescent stage, to an adulthood stage, to an elderly, and finally to end of life and the study as well made us understand the extensive changes throughout lifespan; Consequently, it is known the reason why most toddlers says “No”, and why many adolescent pay attention to their body without criticizing any stage of these lifespan stages. The same concept is applicable to elders or late adulthood people and having a discriminatory ideology towards a person because of his/her age or people of late adulthood stage would be considered uncivilized or uneducated act or a novice to the study of human growth and development. Late adulthood can be a challenge because of the signs of aging from middle adult continues and increased as one aged. Late adulthood individual may face with significant changes including brittle bones, hearing impaired, visual problems, and slow metabolism. Despite some of these changes, late adulthood maintains their integrity, and shares their unique experiences with the community. Technology with the use of advance medicine in elderly, assist with transition from life to death. ” Modern medicine is replacing traditional ways of coping with death” (Shubha, 2007, p.3). Late...
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...Heritage Assessment: Linking Heritage to Health Tricia Wharton Grand Canyon University: 429V August 23rd 2015 Heritage Assessment: Assessing Culture and Health The care needs of patients continue to change, as the United States population becomes more diverse. Nurses will be required to be more knowledgeable and respectful of the differences in cultural and religious beliefs as this diversity continues. The American Nurses Association (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...
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...Youssef Haddad Professor Black English 1101 9 Nov 2013 Equality Vs. Equity: People and The Law Throughout the history of mankind and specially in modern times, many struggles emerged from people’s suppressed anger and hatred of the feudalism and the ruling monopolistic powers, and in their effort to create a system most suitable to their wants and desires and what they take as “values” and “rights” they stumbled on what is to this very day one of the most important and complicated dilemmas of human philosophy: how do we choose between equality and equity? What is the better choice? Do we prefer similarity or justice? And many questions as such, and as other ideas and ideologies go, it remains a major dispute among masses and masses of workers, farmers, countrymen as well as land owners, businessmen and politicians alike, and in many ways it is quite normal, the essence of both those ideas appear the same and are often put in the same category, but in reality they very far from each other on many levels and points of view and they represent systems that do show resemblance but are almost entirely different in functionality and order. Nancy Kranich; Based upon Jorge Schement, "Imagining Fairness: Equality and Equity of Access in Search of Democracy," in Nancy Kranich, Libraries and Democracy, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2001: 15-27. Nancy Kranich’s education is as follows: MA, Library Science, University of Wisconsin— ...
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...Evolution of Health Care Information Systems There has been a very fast growth in the U.S. health care system since the early 1980s with regard to the information technology related to health care. This can be viewed as an attempt towards the standardization of the fragmented health care system. Information technology like in every other field of life has become a necessity even in the health care system and is covered by the federal regulations. The implementation of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) by 2014 has become mandated as ordered by President George.W.Bush in 2004 which was seconded by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These organizations asked the health care providers to comply with the new legislation and those community-based physician practices who were earlier reluctant to accept and implement it have now realized that the health care in sequence systems in the form of CPOE (computerized physician order entry), EMR (electronic medical records), the tele-medicine, complex disease management, and automated billing systems are very beneficial to them The paper intends to showcase the comparison and contrast between a contemporary health care facility and a traditional health care facility which prevailed before twenty years. At least two major events and technological advantages influencing the practice of the current health care information system...
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...Plants An Expanding Role in Development Jitendra Srivastava, John Lambert, and Noel Vietmeyer WORLD BANK TECHNICAL PAPER NUMBER 320 RECENT WORLD BANK TECHNICAL PAPERS No. 246 Plusquellec, Burt, and Wolter, Modern Water Control in Irrigation: Concepts, Issues, and Applications No. 247 Ameur, Agricultural Extension: A Step beyond the Next Step No. 248 Malhotra, Koenig, and Sinsukprasert, A Survey of Asia's Energy Prices No.249 Le Moigne, Easter, Ochs, and Giltner, Water Policy and Water Markets: Selected Papers and Proceedings from the World Bank's Annual Irrigation and Drainage Seminar, Annapolis, Maryland, December 8−10, 1992. No.250 Rangeley, Thiam, Andersen, and Lyle, International River Basin Organizations in Sub−Saharan Africa No.251 Sharma, Rietbergben, Heimo, and Patel, A Strategy for the Forest Sector in Sub−Saharan Africa No.252 The World Bank/FAO/UNIDO/Industry Fertilizer Working Group, World and Regional Supply and Demand Balances for Nitrogen, Phosphate, and Potash, 1992/93−1998/99 No.253 Jensen and Malter, Protected Agriculture: A Global Review No.254 Frischtak, Governance Capacity and Economic Reform in Developing Countries No.255 Mohan, editor, Bibliography of Publications: Technical Department, Africa Region, July 1987 to April 1994 No.256 Campbell, Design and Operation of Smallholder Irrigation in South Asia No.258 De Geyndt, Managing the Quality of Health Care in Developing Countries ...
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...Melanie Chambers April 17, 2012 Health Care Management & Policy Dr. Neubauer Eportfolio Assignment: Being an administrator or high-level manager means always being, “between.” In other words, one’s concern about others of a kind is always likely to be shaped by one’s concerns about and working relationships with other stakeholders. Based on our textbook and course materials pick four (4) of the concerns of hospital administrators, identify the issues regarding each of the four, and then identify and discuss at least one challenge administrators are likely to encounter regarding the challenge of working with a combination of two interests. In today’s society hospital administrators (such as physicians, nurses, board members and accreditation organizations) face many challenges. Not only from their line of work that they have to do on an everyday basis but also from the public and other administrators they have to work with. Primary care physicians face a dizzying array of daunting challenges. For instance, today’s doctors cannot just practice medicine. I say that because of how things are looking now and seem to be headed in the future. Some issues they face are game-changing federal legislation, diminishing compensation, soaring financial and competitive pressures. They also have to manage people, manage knowledge about changing federal regulations and spend time consulting with accountants and other nonmedical professionals...
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...Health traditions between cultures vary according to the heritage a family is part of. The Heritage Assessment Tool helps evaluate the family whom is interviewed in order to develop a plan for health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Each culture offers a different set of traditions and beliefs that contribute to the health care practices they participate in and how the traditions of that heritage are incorporated into the health practices present in the United States. The three families that were interviewed using the Heritage Assessment Tool were families from Native American Indian ancestry, Mexican ancestry, and Portuguese ancestry. All three families were born and raised in the United States, but their ancestors were from other countries, except the Native American family. Although these families were born and raised in the United States, they still carried on some of the traditions from their ancestors. There are many similarities within the three cultures above. All three cultures are family oriented, family is considered to be very important and family gatherings to celebrate holidays and rituals are huge gatherings that involve all the relatives old and young. It is common for these cultures to have large families; it is not unusual to have more than just the immediate family living in the home. In Mexican, Portuguese, and American Indian households, other family members also live in the same household. All three cultures also have many differences...
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...African American Families The Heritage Assessment Tool (HST) is used to “investigate a given patient’s or your own ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage…it can help determine how deeply a given person identifies with a particular tradition”. (prenhall.com). This assessment of 29 questions based on family, social, cultural, religious and immigration history can be very helpful in identifying the individual’s health traditions and beliefs, which can promote a more culturally competent R.N. Cultural competency is vital for the nurse in designing a plan of care that takes into consideration the culture and 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...
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...behavior affects others. By focusing on our professional presence and mindfulness we can create a plan that will have both professional and personal applications. Models of Health and Healing Within the modern world of medicine, there are many different views and theories of nursing practice and nursing models. One such theorist is noted physician Larry Dossey, using his background as an internist Dr. Dossey noted the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare (Dossey, 2015). Using this knowledge, Dr. Dossey identified three eras that provide a framework for the medicine operational in the Western world today (Koerner, 2011). The three Eras are: Era I, mechanistic medicine, Era II, body/mind and Era III, Body/Mind/Spirit. Of the three theories, the biggest difference can be seen between the first and second Era. In Era I which began around the 1860’s the focus is on the physical being, health and illness are completely physical in nature, with a person’s consciousness being a by-product of the chemical, anatomic, and physiological aspects of the brain (Koerner, 2011). Treatment and therapies under Era I are focused primarily on the physical being, such and medications and surgeries. By the 1950’s medicine evolved to understand how the mind also played a role in a person’s health. In Era II the focus was extended to include the body and the mind and how emotions and feelings can...
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...Sociology of Health Author’s Name Institution’s Affiliation Sociology of Health The social perspective in sociology of health explains the society's view concerning health. It is a discipline that describes an illness using social factors present in daily activities of life. Sociologists show how wellness and disease, the treatment and explanation of illness production in a social organization can be understood differently from a medical perspective of nature, biology, and lifestyle in an attempt of explaining sickness (Bahar, 2013). It is a significant facet of interpreting biological information that shows the creation of health and disease in a political, social, and cultural environment. In describing various social phenomena, sociologists examine how social life impacts morbidity and mortality rates and how it alternatively influences the society. Medical sociology uses sociological theory to explain the relationship between social factors and health to define this issue and its systems (Amzat & Razum, 2014). Amzat and Razum (2014) demonstrate that it tends to separate nature from the community. It means that it illustrates how scientific knowledge mediates social relations. Moreover, medical sociology shows how the technical realm of medical practice is inconsistent with social processes in nature. It is a claim of understanding constructivism through an objective in natural science. Various studies identify the inconsistencies between current medical practice...
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...ABSTRACT Heart failure is one of the leading causes of mortality in the world. At present, there are approximately 26 million heart failure patients worldwide (1). Heart failure is a life-threatening disease and addressing it should be treated as a global health priority. The prevalence and cost of the condition is set to rise due to Ireland’s ageing population and increases in diabetes and coronary heart disease (2). To a large extent, heart failure is a disease that is managed medically. Medications such as ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers are well established in the treatment of heart failure, reducing mortality and hospitalisations (3). Lifestyle interventions can substantially improve the population’s health, because obesity, hypertension, diabetes and smoking all dramatically increase the likelihood of heart failure. The goals of treatment in patients with heart failure are to improve their quality of life by controlling the symptoms of the disease and to prolong life by slowing the disease’s progression. Research was carried out on heart failure, its frequency, guidelines to prevent it, the burden it has on the patient, management of the...
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