...Heritage Assessment Latasha Rice, WCC- RN Grand Canyon University: NRS 429v Date: 8/31/2012 What is a heritage assessment? A heritage assessment is a subpart to the overall nursing assessment. Assessing a patient’s heritage allows the nurse to obtain more information about a patient’s culture, including beliefs about health and values, this is important to providing cultural health care. One’s heritage includes information about their cultural beliefs and practices of the family and ethno religious community (Jarvis, C., 2012). Through a heritage assessment the nurse can obtain a vast amount of information about the patient/ family, including but not limited to, where ancestors were born, how many siblings they have, if the family originated in another country, how often time is spent with family, religion, if the patient prefers the company of people with the same values and religion or ethnic background, what type of foods the patient prepares, and the patient’s native language. This paper will discuss what the author learned from completing a heritage assessment tool, the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool when assessing a patient/ family/ community as a whole. This paper will also compare the health traditions of three different families (and cultures) to include, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration, while identifying common traditions based on the author’s heritage. What the families ascribe their traditions to will also be discussed...
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...Personal Heritage Assessment Question: What are the Personal heritage assessment and its usefulness? In this paper, the writer will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of person as a whole, three different family’s opinions on health maintenance, health protection and health restoration. Also this paper will identify health traditions as regards to cultural heritage of the writer, then how the three families interviewed in this paper follow their customs and how important their traditions and practices are to them. Heritage can be described as the degree of which one’s lifestyle reflects his/her tribal culture. Cultural heritage exist in a continuum and a person can possess values both the traditional –living within the norms of the traditional culture and modern-living outside norms of the tradition. Specter (2004) The usefulness of the applying heritage assessment in evaluating of the needs of the whole person is outlined as follows; EFFECTIVE CARE:- With the knowledge and application of heritage assessment patient will derive satisfaction and positive outcome in health will be achieved. RESPECTFUL CARE: - Taking into consideration the values, preferences, n the expressed needs of the patient are met. CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE:- By applying heritage assessment certain behaviors, attitudes, and policies that are seen in a system of multidisciplinary which enable them to work in cross-cultural...
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...As a measurement tool, heritage assessment helps a person appreciate further his cultural background, find strengths in his personality (based from his specific cultural background), and work on weaknesses that he has. Unlike other assessment tools, this is a quantitative-based approach aimed at threshing out a person’s family, religious and ethnic background that Influences the healthcare delivered to that person or to their culture The greater the number of the positive responses shows the person’s greater identification with traditional heritage. (Spector 365) .Based from the writers experience, a person needs to answer questions in a heritage assessment tool and these questions are * Place of birth of one’s parents * Place of birth of their respective parents * His or her age when family migrated to the United States * Composition of one’s family * Number of family members which that person lives with * Degree of interaction with family members living outside one’s home. * Religion of one’s family * Religion of one’s spouse * Religion of one’s neighbors * Degree of belief in one’s religion and observance of religious holidays Based on these questions which was answered by the writer she found that she is Christian catholic, and was born and raised in India along with her family and parents. The Indians beliefs are very different than other culture. We still believes in strong family and have long families who lives together in...
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...Heritage Assessment The heritage Assessment Tool is a questioner design to assist individual to determine his or her ethnic, religious and cultural background in relationship with health, illness and diseases. Heritage and culture are different just like individual fingerprint. When looking at someone’s heritage and tradition, it consists of methods used to maintain health, protect health, and restore health. These concepts deal with person’s physical, mental and spiritual belief. Every individual has their own heritage, and this is very different among different cultures. ( Spector 2009). Heritage assessment tool in combination with questions relating to health and illness belief and practices was helpful in helping individuals remember events in their childhood and also the influence of culture and belief relating to health and illness practices. To summarize heritage assessment tools, people have diverse beliefs about health, Illness, disease, birth and death, which are directed by culture. Heritage assessment is an important step towards building understanding of cultural competency. It is a phenomenon that recognizes diversity, both in linguistic and cultural adeptness by the health care provider. A person’s culture, beliefs, heritage, and language have a substantial impact on both the patient and the health care provider within the health care system (Spector 2009). The question in heritage assessment...
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...Running Head: Heritage Assessment Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS-429V January 22, 2011 Heritage Assessment Heritage is as individual as a fingerprint when it comes to some cultures. Every individual has their own heritage, and this is very different between different cultures. Heritage consists of determination of one’s ethnic, religious, and cultural background (Spector, 2009). When we look at someone’s heritage, we look at traditional health methods used to maintain health, protect health, and restore health; these concepts deal with a person’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs. This paper will compare these health methods among the Chinese, Hispanic, and Navajo heritages and look at the differences between the health traditions, as well as look at the author’s heritage. Health maintenance deals with what different cultures do in their everyday lives that help prevent illnesses. In the Chinese culture, the people believe that eggs are a necessity in their everyday diet, along with rice (B. Nguyen, personal communication, January 15, 2011). They also believe that food should be various flavors; such as, sweet, sour, salty, bitter and spicy. The people of the Navajo culture use activities like weaving and making rugs to help calm their souls (S. Notah, personal communication, January 16, 2011). Hobbies help contribute to their mental well-being (Spector, 2009). Both the Navajo and Hispanic cultures are very strong believers in their...
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...maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. As an RN assesses these three factors, an understanding of the patient’s health will become apparent. Another useful tool that an RN can utilize, is a heritage assessment tool. This assessment will reveal the heritage of your patient, the patient’s family dynamics, the religious preference, and the practice of rituals or activities. The heritage assessment does describe the patient as a whole and provides great insight to the care of the patient as it pertains to the mind, body, and soul. Understanding a heritage is useful, in the origins of a family, cultural practices, any possible genetic heritages that may provide insight when assessing a patient (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The heritages of the Chinese, Hispanic, and American will be compared in relation to health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Each heritage assessment will reveal different practices and beliefs in respect to healthcare. In the Hispanic culture, health maintenance is based off of folklore traditions that are passed down from generation to generation (Tran & Garcia, 2009). Hispanic people perform ritualistic activities to maintain health, like lighting candles, saying prayers, and worshiping shrines (F. Buenrostro, personal communication, June 20, 2013). In the Chinese culture, the people maintain health by strong spiritual practices that are said...
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...Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University 7/5/2014 Introduction Many times the United States is referred to as a melting pot of people, but this description of the diverse cultures and heritages that make up our nation fails to recognize the extreme individuality of the people here. Perhaps a better description would be a salad bowl, with each part and piece amazingly unique from the rest. Culture is a learned way of thinking and acting. “The behavioral, intellectual, and emotional forms of life expression represent a cultural heritage that is passed on from generation to generation” (Smith, 2009). Culture and heritage greatly influence all aspects of a person’s health. One’s heritage may determine a persons beliefs relating to the physical and /or spiritual approaches that people use to maintain, protect and restore health. The Heritage Assessment tool A heritage assessment tool is a set of 29 questions that address a person’s heritage. It looks at family connections, use of original language, religion, attendance of cultural functions and dietary habits and how closely an individual follows these practices from their cultural roots. Within this paper the author will examine the results of three families from India, Holland and Korea who took the assessment. It will look at how the heritage assessment ties in to help evaluate how closely an individual may follow common health traditions and practices such as health protection, maintenance and restoration from...
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...Heritage Assessment: Cultural Differences Jennifer L. Moul Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V March 30, 2014 Heritage Assessment: Cultural Differences Heritage assessment tools are used as a guide to assist in developing plans based on an indivudals cultural assssement. Heritage assessment tools prompt the interviewer to ask questions that pertain to their family’s background such as parent origins, race, relgious beliefs, customs, and practices. Gaining knowledge of an individual’s background will allow a health care professional to build plans that will be achievable. Achieving optimal health requires assessment and treating the individual human being. Reflecting on Jean Watson’s theory around caring, “Theory specifically involves the caring of a person’s mind, body, and soul” (Zerwekh & Claborn, 2009). Watson’s 10 carative factors represent the human caring values, the following factors are essential and necessary to understand and treat the whole-human being: Maintain humanistic view, Promote faith and hope, sensitivity of oneself and others, development of trust, acceptance of feelings positive or negative, systematic approach to problem solving, teaching and learning, create a healing environment, support the gratification of needs, allow for spiritualism. Recognizing the Most Precious and Powerful Source is the Human Being (Edelman, Mandel, & Elizabeth. 2014), defines culture “as an element of ethnicity, refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that...
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...Running head: Heritage Assessment Heritage Assessment Rose Opondo Grand Canyon University Date June 7, 2013 HERITAGE ASSESMENT In this paper, the writer will look at how Personal Heritage assessment evaluates the needs of a person as a whole. By looking at the three identified families heritage assessment tools discussed below, different cultures and different traditional opinions will be brought to light. This includes health maintenance, protection and restoration. Their customs and cultures and how these items affect as a whole. Heritage Assessment Tool can have impact on owns personal awareness when delivering health care. Heritage Cultural beliefs can described as a way in which one’s lifestyle reflects ones tribal culture. Health heritage is the value one possesses both in norms and traditional living. (Spector, 2004) It is important to recognize the cultural background and understand how people came up with remedies of health promotion and maintenance. Heritage can be acquired through birth as a way of life, or passed on down from generation to generation. Through identification and protection, we gain understanding of one’s place in the world (Council of Europe, 2005) America is a home of diverse cultures. (Richer & Anis, 2007)Providing culturally competent care one has to have understanding of the difference in cultures, respecting those differences, and operating within their beliefs. ((El-Amouri, 2011)A Heritage Assessment Tool helps distinguish...
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...Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Grand Canyon University September 2, 2014 Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Each country has a different tradition, culture, customs and anindividual’scultural legacy plays a very important part in upgrading the health of that person. According to various sources, United States will observe an immense increase in mixture of cultures in the 21stcentury. Nurses should have a proper knowledge about the patient’s health who belonged to various cultures, and their social needs, in order to enrich their life’s value and the protection of health.Each patient will have different beliefs of their well-being and nurses should be able to recognize, evaluate and work with conventional health habits used by patients of all cultures A teaching method that endorse cultural skills can bedeveloped by educating nursing students about patients heritage evaluation and tradition (Toddmckee, 2012). The heritage assessment tool aids to differentiate various customs and culture of different societies. The main aim of this paper is to apply the heritage assessment tool to evaluate the requirements of a person and his health preservation, assertion, and renewal. In this paper, evaluation of three families, their family background, their culture and tradition is been discussed. Usefulness of Applying Heritage Assessment Tool The purpose of this Heritage Assessment tool is to provide awareness to students which will help them to understand...
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...Heritage Assessment: Jamaica, Bangladesh, and Cuba Jessyca E. Jackson Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-O104 August 24, 2014 Heritage Assessment: Jamaica, Bangladesh, and Cuba The Heritage Assessment Tool produced by Prentice-Hall was used to interview three individuals. All the question listed on the tool were asked of these individuals and a discussion of health traditions followed. The following is a synopsis of these interviews and contains conclusions drawn from the interviews. Usefulness of Using a Heritage Assessment in Evaluating the Needs of the Whole Person The use of a heritage assessment tool is a good place to start when trying to understand the culture, beliefs, and values of your patient. Proper assessment is necessary in order to prevent stereotyping. It is easy to make assumptions 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...
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...Heritage Assessments Guide Care Plans Heritage Assessments Guide Care Plans As we examine a person’s health status; it is important to note how one has formed beliefs of wellness and health promotion. In a populated, culturally diverse country; it is vital to comprehend and respect the traditions of these beliefs as we teach health promotion, set goals for health restoration, and evaluate health maintenance. Just as recording the vital signs of a patient becomes the blueprint in determining their base line for optimal health; a heritage assessment tool becomes the compass in providing direction toward creating a successful care plan. Evaluation of Heritage Assessments Health assessment tools are useful in evaluating the current philosophy of a patient’s health and wellness. Culture has a multi-faceted effect on a person. It can affect food choices, activity levels, determine when to seek health care, influence lifestyle behaviors, and how health care regimens will be followed. As an individual philosophy is revealed, it can assist in determining which lifestyle behaviors is contributing to the overall health or illness of the patient. The capability of teaching strategies can be rated in an effort to respectfully teach lifestyle modification behaviors. Trends and traditions can be determined with goals adapted to correlate with these cultural attributes (Spector, 2004). Heritage assessments tools also assist in comparing our own belief systems with that of others which...
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...Heritage Sways Healthcare Perception Cynthia K. Martin Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Family Centered Health Promotion November 09, 2013 Cultural beliefs are the foundation of an individual, families, and communities that persuasively influences the standards by which they reason and behave in every aspect of their life. Therefore, as healthcare providers, it is imperative that we consider a patient’s cultural heritage when assessing them from a holistic approach and planning for a desirable healthcare outcome. Madeliene Leininger brought to the forefront the concept of transcultural nursing which was founded on “the belief that optimal health for all is an essential cultural value” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) and further declared that “our rapidly growing multicultural world makes it imperative that nurses understand different cultures to work and function effectively with people having different values, beliefs, and ideas about nursing, health, caring, wellness, illness, death and disabilities” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment Tool is useful for gaining understanding of the patient in regard to how intricately they are ingrained in their culture and sets the stage for determining how they perceive health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration through open ended questions. This tool not only affords a course by which communication of beliefs, values, tradition, and...
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...Heritage Assessment Mary DeCastro Grand Canyon University NUR 429V Lori James July 7, 2014 Heritage Assessment Health care professionals deliver cultural competent care on a daily basis. In 1969 Campinha-Bacote was pursuing an undergraduate degree in nursing. At the same time relationships between the Caucasians and Blacks were strained. Parties of either side felt compelled to identify with ethnic background. It was at this time that Campinha-Bacote laid the developmental stages of her model, The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services (Campinha-Bacote, 2002). Cultural competence requires the health care deliverers to value diversity, be able to assess culture, be conscious of the interactions of cultures, have cultural knowledge, and develop a deliver system that reflects and understanding of diversity (Cross, Bazron, Dennis, and Isaacs, 1998). Heritage Assessment Tool Since Campinha-Bacote introduce the idea of cultural competency in the delivery of nursing care healthcare, professionals have developed many tools to help identify the cultural beliefs of patients and how culture affect patient’s medical beliefs (Campinha-Bacote, 2002). Questionaries’ such as the Heritage Assessment Tool (http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/663/679611/box_6_1.pdf) have been key to identifying a patient’s cultural need. The Heritage Assessment Tool was used to assess three families: Family A, Family B, and Family C cultural needs. Family...
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...The heritage assessment tool, used alone, was not very useful in assessing health practices and needs. However, it was helpful in identifying similarities in generations. The tool asks very basic questions but it does not gain specific information about what people do, how they deal with sickness, how they live their lives, and whether or not they base their personal practices on their family history. If health providers are only using this tool to develop specific information about health practices, they will not find it useful without additional cultural information. It is very important for health care providers to be aware and knowledgeable of the various heritage practices and be able to work with these families to identify and address specific health concerns. Some of the information gained through a heritage assessment tool teaches us that some families pass along traditions through their familial line more than others. This only means that some families value traditional practices, while others may modify the traditional practices to make it unique to their own family. Creating a more detailed heritage assessment on families, in addition to using the tool, is very important to gain vital information about how different people maintain, promote, and improve their health. Todd McKee stated, “Efforts to eliminate health disparities arising from cultural differences should focus on building patient-clinician trust relationships, understanding the cultural contexts of health...
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