HERITAGE ASSESSMENT LYNN BAKER GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: NRS 429 V MARCH 24, 2013 Culture is the foundation of all social distinctiveness and advancement. Culture heritage is the legacy that each generation receives and passes to the next generation. It includes all the aspects of a community’s past and present that is considered valuable and desires to pass on to future generations. People have different beliefs concerning health, illness, diseases, life and death; which are guided by
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Health Traditions and Practices as it Relates to Health Maintenance in The Culturally Diverse. M. Gabrielle Kuehl (aka Maria Kuehl) Grand Canyon University NRS-429V August 17, 2014 Promoting a health wellness plan to that effectively addresses the needs of a culturally diverse community, requires heritage based evaluations and considerations to address the varying diverse values, traditions or practices within the family unit. Understanding the family’s cultural heritage in addition to health
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Heritage assessment tool is a set of questions used on individuals to determine how their culture and beliefs determine the way they carry themselves on matters of health. Each culture is unique in a way such that the individuals who conform to it end up having unique ways of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In this case, having studied three different families on their cultural beliefs then it is possible to point out the importance of applying the heritage assessment to evaluate the needs of families
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Heritage Cultural Assessment is just the tool needed when assessing the cultural diversities. This assessment allows for medical professionals to learn about the patients’ ethnicity, religious preference, health traditions, as well as their cultural heritage. In my paper, I will discuss three culturally diverse families, the Latin American, Jewish American, and Native American. I will compare and contrast the different health traditions, religious beliefs and evaluate how families apply to these traditions
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Heritage Assessment Arielle N. Bakhiet, RN Grand Canyon University: NRS- 429V-0101 October 11, 2015 Introduction The goal of health care providers is to return patients to the optimal health so that the patient and patient’s family can achieve a positive result. Healthcare is individualized to the patient and is further personalized to meet the needs of families with specific cultural considerations. In the United States, we are a nation of many cultures that are able to co-exist with
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an overall understanding of health is crucial to one’s general being. When we understand how to assess our health and the factors that affect us we will be able to implicate a manner of conducting change to increase our chances of a healthier lifestyle. I will be discussing common measures of assessment for dieting, exercise, stress management, cardio vascular disease, cancers and diabetes, family history/ social support, and self-esteem. While providing such assessment measures I will also be exploring
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k N427 Midterm Self Evaluation 1. Perform assessments and analyses at the individual/family, community, and systems levels of practice. I’ve met the objective of performing assessments and analyses at the individual/family, community, and systems levels practice in many ways. The assessment and analyses at the individual/family level has been a little more difficult, due to the work I do at my clinical site. I’ve assessed behaviors of children and adults that I’ve worked with and reflected on why
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HERITAGE ASSESSMENT PAPER Heritage Assessment The multiple questions of Heritage Assessment Tool is no doubt a "sine qua non" or an indispensable guide to follow by nurses and providers when dealing with new patients of different races, ethnicities, religions, cultures, and other things that make each and everyone unique and different. This tool helps the nurses and providers to reach into the beliefs, and probably the superstitions of their patients, and this may guide them in providing
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Chapter 04: Social, Cultural, and Religious Influences on Child Health Promotion MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which term best describes a group of people who share a set of values, beliefs, practices, social relationships, law, politics, economics, and norms of behavior? a.|Race| b.|Culture| c.|Ethnicity| d.|Social group| ANS: B Culture is a pattern of assumptions, beliefs, and practices that unconsciously frames or guides the outlook and decisions of a group of people. A culture is composed
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Health Assessment Health assessment is an essential nursing function which provides foundation for quality nursing care and intervention. It helps to identify the strengths of the clients in promoting health. Health assessment also helps to identify client’s needs, clinical problems or nursing diagnoses and to evaluate responses of the person to health problems and intervention (Fuller & Schaller-Ayers, 2000). An accurate and thorough health assessment reflects the knowledge and skills
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