HERITAGE ASSESSMENT PAPER Lara G. Heier Grand Canyon University: NRS- 429 4/9/2016 The Heritage Assessment tool is used by healthcare professionals in order for them to find out the patient’s cultural, religious and ethnic background. Culture is defined as an element of ethnicity, consisting of shared values and behaviors associated with a particular group. (Edelman, et al, 2014) In order to improve the quality of care, it’s important to understand the patient’s culture and the health
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Heritage Assessment Kyler G. Merrill Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V 01/18/2015 Heritage Assessment Tool Today in society there are many diverse culture and ethnic backgrounds, each with their own habits, traditions, preferences, and of these includes health. Different needs of the whole person should be evaluated in detail. This paper will discuss results from three different cultures through the interviewing of them using the Heritage Assessment Tool. It will also review
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Assessment Analysis Paper Gentina Thompson NUR440: Health Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population September 22, 2014 Assessment tools are a necessary part of everyday nursing care. They provide the nurse with measurable means of keeping inventory of a patient’s physical progression from shift to shift. Assessment tools like the Braden scale which assess the patient’s skin quality; along with the falls risk scale that assess how high the patient’s chances are for falling; are two common
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Heritage Assessment Tool Stacey Howard Grand Canyon University 4/20/2014 Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment Tool is useful in determining how connected an individual is to their specific culture which enables the culturally competent practitioner to identify health traditions, evaluate needs, and create appropriate plans for health maintenance, protection and/or restoration of the patient. Heritage and culture are interchangeable words that represent the concept
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Professional Presence and Influence Professional Presence and Influences To feel completely human one have to be able to care for themselves and also for someone else in a respected and nurtured manner. According to Dr. Koerner, one consider them self valuable and useful when they are able to contribute to wellbeing of themselves
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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
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crucial to produce positive outcomes. Nurses have a major role in health care promotion. Nurses should be treating the patient as a whole in mind, body, and spirit. This should be included in community treatment too. Individual, family, environment, and community assessments are necessary to provide the care and improve health care outcomes in the community as a whole. The World Health Organization’ s (WHO) definition of community is “a group of people, often living in a defined geographical area
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An Existential-humanistic approach to counseling is a psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at the human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving. This allows the clients’ to be free willed and innate drive for self- actualization. It focuses
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Heritage Assessment Paper Trista M. Pattison Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion May 19, 2013 Heritage is defined as something acquired from the past or given to someone as a result of their birth (Merriam-Webster,2013). Heritage can vary for everyone not just because of our genetics, but also due to how one chooses to continue with aspects of that heritage for the next generations to remember. Heritage also plays a major role in how people may
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Heritage Assessment Paul Bockoven Grand Canyon University NRS429-V October 14, 2012 Heritage Assessment Cultural assessments can be useful tools for a registered nurse to develop adequate plans of care, especially when it comes to education. They have limits however, as not every individual within a certain cultural ‘category’ can be expected to conform the way their heritage may dictate. Assigning a score to any person to predict how they may act, or learn, is contrary to the direction
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