focus on the family and individual as practices differ and evolve over time. Rachel Spector developed a Heritage Assessment interview as a useful tool to aid in understanding how strongly an individual or family subscribes to specific cultural traditions and practices, thereby strengthening the ability to provide Cultural Care. Cultural Care is a concept describing professional nursing care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent (Spector, 2004). Utilizing this assessment tool creates
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sucks. In my family, it has always just been a given rule that the children will do good in school and go onto college. My parents always wanted my brother and I to go to college, since they never had the chance to. My dad would always say, “I want better for you guys than I had for myself”. One way to accomplish that, was to get good grades in high school and move onto college. So it was not a big shock to my family when I said I wanted to graduate my Junior year of high school, a whole year earlier
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Approaches to Family Nursing The purpose of this paper is to discuss four types of approaches to family nursing. The four types of approaches are: Family as Context, Family as Client, Family as System, and Family as Component of Society (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson, 2015). Each type will be addressed from clinical experience and observation of a family in a health crisis. The family chosen for this paper was a young pregnant mother, her spouse, and their parents. This was her
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Heritage and Cultural Assessment Gathering information about a patient’s culture is an essential part of the nursing assessment. The importance of a comprehensive cultural assessment cannot be underestimated. Race, ethnicity, and cultural values influence a patient’s view of health and potential treatments. My first experiences with culture were relatively benign. I grew up in small-town Iowa where there was one African-American family and a smattering of families of Asian or Indian descent. The
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Jackson Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University April 7th, 2013 Schauer Family Health Patterns “A family is a set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. Relevant functions of the family include values and practices placed on health or family health practice. Health practices, whether effective or ineffective, are activities performed by individuals or families as a
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Heritage Assessment Chiugo Alexander Grand Canyon University: NRS-429 V Heritage Assessment September 19, 2014 Heritage Assessment America is a melting pot of people from divergent ethnicities in the world leading to disparity in the healthcare system. In other to improve the healthcare outcomes in the nation, there is a need to reduce the insightful disparity in health care status amongst the various ethnic groups that suffer great disproportionate poor health. With advancement in education
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environment, especially her family structure. According to Van Wormer and Besthorn, families are an ecosystem, which is joining tow concepts: “one from the science of ecology, which views the organism in the environment; the other from systems theory and family systems theory, in which the focus is on how the parts together form a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts.” (Van Wormer & Besthorn, 2010, p.122). At the macro level, social workers think of the family and the environment rather
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Many factors can shape and influence the career paths we choose, it can begin with how our family shapes our perceptions. I grew up in south Florida in the Ft Lauderdale and Miami area. At the age of ten years old I was sent to the United State to live with my extended family members. Before coming the U.S. from Haiti my family consisted of my mother and me. My father was there, but he didn’t play a very integral part in my life except providing financial support. Many factors have influenced my
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Community Health Nursing Assessment Western Governors University Community Health Nursing Assessment A1. Community Description Hernando County is located in west central Florida. The county was officially established on February 27, 1843. It was created from portions of Alachua, Hillsborough and Orange Counties and centered between Citrus County to the north and Pasco County to the south. Its county seat is Brooksville
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Heritage Assessment Tool Devona Myrick Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Teaching and Learning Styles 10-11-2014 Heritage Assessment Tool Identified over 20 years ago in the USA the use of the heritage assessment proves to be useful in the supporting the national health along with the cure and prevention of a number of diseases (Edelmam & Mandle, 2010). It is reliable in helping the medical staff to talk with their patients and families about different
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