Running head: Transcultural Nursing Assessment Transcultural Nursing Assessment Deborah Hill St. Francis University Abstract Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Assessment Model is a valuable and functional assessment tool that evaluates the different cultural variables and how those variables effect health, illness and behaviors (Giger, 2013). This philosophy considers the uniqueness of each individual, understanding that the individual is unique, a product of their culture, religion
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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
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Standards of Care | Met | Unmet | Example | Recommendation | 1. Patients have access to the health care organizations’ services based on their identified health care needs and the organizations’ mission and resources. | * | | Patients are being cared of according to their complaint: * The patient is complaining of flank pain, the health care provider in the institution performs assessment and laboratory examinations. | | 2. The patient has a process for admitting patients to the
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Heritage is ones unique and unbreakable bonds to the root, it defines who they are and where their origin lie. Health care has to be specific with patients need and patients traditional and cultural values should be consider. Individuals here in United States came from different cultures, however they still sustained their deep culture, believes and tradition. To deliver high quality health care services to a wide diverse population, it is important to be culturally competent. In the United States
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Running head: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Heritage Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures Sufi Heritage Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures America’s growing diversity is increasing day by day 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
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HERITAGE ASSESSMENT 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
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1044-94 Long-Term Poverty and Child Development in the United States: Results from the NLSY Sanders Korenman Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Center for Population Analysis and Policy University of Minnesota Jane E. Miller Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Rutgers University John E. Sjaastad Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Minnesota September 1994 This research was funded by a grant from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University
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critically explore recent Health and Social Care policies in relation to the family unit, and the implications of the policies for health and social care practitioners. The assignment will attempt to discuss relevant biopsychosocial theories which when impacted on the family, influence health status outcomes, including resilience factors. It will also highlight and focus on attributes of vulnerability within the family setting, using specialist assessments skills. The family which the author will
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Confidential Clinical Intake and Assessment For Professional Use Only Name of Client: Caitlyn Postma Date of Birth: 01/26/97 Race: Caucasian Gender: Female Therapist: Referral Source: Kristin Covalt- Department of Child Services Case Manager, Kristin.Covalt@dcs.IN.gov Ms. Catilyn Postma was referred to Capitol City Family and Education Services (CCFES) for a Substance Use Disorder Assessment in order to determine the level of treatment needed to address her current substance use
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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
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