Heritage Assessment Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group. Cultural heritage is a set of traditions within the culture that is hand down from the older generation to the younger generation within the family. These traditions influence the family’s decisions in relation to their diet, education, daily living activities, religious beliefs and practices and also health and illness beliefs. In this paper, the author will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage
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THE HERITAGE ASSESSMENT TOOL: A CULTURAL VIEW OF THE PATIENT The Heritage Assessment Tool: A Cultural View of the Patient Grand Canyon University: 439v March 11, 2012 The Heritage Assessment Tool: A Cultural View of the Patient The Heritage Assessment Tool is a series of 29 questions designed to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious background. The tool gives nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and
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Heritage Assessment and Cultural Project ********** Grand Canyon University: NRS- 429V (0101) February 27, 2014 Heritage Assessment The Heritage Assessment Tool can be used as a tool to assess health maintenance, protection, and restoration of individual cultural. This assessment tool helps explore and try to meet the needs of different patient populations to provide quality care among cultures. The purpose of this essay is to explore the finding of the evaluation from using
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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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Cultural Heritage assessment Culture is defined as, “the behaviors and beliefs characteristics of a particular society, or ethnic group, which differentiate one society or ethnic group from another”. Heritage assessment is an important step which helps the health care professionals to be client-centered and cross-culturally competent. Cultural/heritage assessment will help health care providers to know the traditional health care methods used to protect, maintain, and restore health and give more
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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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Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS429 June 13, 2014 Heritage Assessment The increasing population of immigrants in the United States has contributed to health disparities in the health care system. Cultural competence can remove health disparities by eliminating personal biases, and treating every person with respect. Simply recognizing and accepting different cultures is not enough, one must be able to consistently recognize and understand the differences in order to be culturally
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Heritage Assessment and Implementation in Nursing Taiba Alfred Grand Canyon University: NRS- 429V August/30/2015 The usefulness of applying heritage assessment tool in nursing is to help nurses to be aware of the different cultural norms and values of individual patients. Heritage assessments also help nurses to be cultural competent. This writer will discuss the heritage assessment of three families from three different countries, how health insurance affects their health decision, and how
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Heritage describes the kind of people we are, the place we come from and our historical background. Peoples’ heritage vary with their cultures and entails individual’s background in terms of culture, religion and ethnicity. For example, Indian culture is so unique and totally different from that of people of other cultures in terms of customs, beliefs and issues pertaining health. People of different cultures have varying approaches to life in matters power, privacy or personal space, control of
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Heritage Assessment: Linking Heritage to Health Tricia Wharton Grand Canyon University: 429V August 23rd 2015 Heritage Assessment: Assessing Culture and Health The care needs of patients continue to change, as the United States population becomes more diverse. Nurses will be required to be more knowledgeable and respectful of the differences in cultural and religious beliefs as this diversity continues. The American Nurses Association (ANA) states, “knowledge of cultural diversity is vital
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