Heritage assessment Introduction The Heritage Assessment Tool can be adopted as a dependable tool to gauge, health maintenance, restoration and safeguard of personal, cultural beliefs. The adoption of health assessment tool helps meet the prerequisites of diverse patient populations to offer quality all-inclusive care. The following paper reviews the assessment of three culturally dissimilar families, and demonstrate how a nurse would continue with health promotion centred on the variances in health
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Heritage Assessment Jasmine J Kannamkulam Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Family Centered Health Promotion 12/11/2011 Cultural heritage plays an important role in the life of every individual regardless of the place they live, food they prefer or language they speak. The cultural roots and traditions build the personality of the person and the cultural awareness helps them to identify themselves and relate it with the outside world. Culture is defined as,“ the accumulated knowledge
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diverse especially in the United States of America where people emigrate from different parts of the world and live within a society. Understanding culture is an important exclusive essence and crucial in nursing so that a professional can give cultural competent client oriented care. It is through proper understanding of one’s own culture and that of our clients’ culture that a nurse can transcend culture barriers and approach every client with their unique needs. It is also important to understand
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2 Introduction Alcoholism plays a huge part in our society; this paper will discuss the links that alcohol has on the brain as well as the biological, psychological and social development in alcoholics. Where they may fit in and to what groups. Cultural differences and the expectation those cultures may see the alcoholic and their choice to receive help. How the social worker knowing and understanding cultural differences will help to supply the alcoholic with the proper treatment.
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Non-Western Culture Kerry Pemberton HUMA215-1104B-11 Topics in Cultural Studies Professor Kelly Dormady AIU December 3, 2011 Abstract This paper will explore the decentering of culture by the Europeans. Also, this paper will give examples of the effects of decentering of culture by the Europeans in Africa. Introduction As the western world began strengthening its military, communication, and developing naval technology, its new
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Communication Opinion Paper HCS/320 Communication Opinion Paper Communication in health care is an ever-changing issue. The element of communication help to ensure communication is effective and successful. Technology, and what is being communicated continues to change and be affected by social and cultural issues, but communication at its primary level requires a good knowledge of the elements of communication. Communication according to Merriam-Webster “is: the act or process of using
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("Hispanic Heritage Month," 2014, para. 3) of the population with Mexicans (64%) being the largest, followed by Puerto Ricans (9.4), Salvadorians (3.8%), Cubans (3.7%), Dominicans (3.1%), Guatemalans (2.3%), and other Hispanic origins (13.7) (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015, table 1). Poverty rates (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2013, table 1) for Hispanics (24%) are second only to Blacks (27%) but considering that Hispanics make up 17% of the population in the United States, this amount
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diabetes in Hispanic adults Gerald Jean University of phoenix NUR/427 July1, 2014 Week 1 Type 2 diabetes in Hispanic adults Chronic disease is very significant in the health care professions. When considering the model it gives us the ability to assess, implement, and evaluates the effectiveness of the care we delivered to our patients in the daily basis. Type 2 diabetes is a progressive
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419). This is already a universal experience of those dealing with cancer as it is a common experience to feel “marginalized and relegated to the standpoint of a ‘disease’” (Harter, Japp & Beck, 2005, p. 426). Voicing a narrative of the illness experience gives people the opportunity to put into words what they are going through and feeling. In a cyclical fashion, this may help them understand what it is they are
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as it is considered to be the “land of opportunity”. 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
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