Cultural Assessment Being culturally competent means more than having an awareness for a culture different than your own for the majority culture. Cultural competency involves having an open mind-set and respect for the unique cultures, values and principles of all diverse ethnicities. I had very little interaction with the Haitian culture until I started working at a very culturally diverse facility. While completing my nightshift rotation, I had the pleasure of befriending someone from Haiti
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(The Office of Minority Health, 2013). Health care that is center to one’s culture and is sensitive to the beliefs and customs will foster a positive experience. The Heritage Assessment tool can be utilized to lay the foundation for health care professionals in understanding a client’s culture and traditions. The Heritage Assessment is a tool that a nurse can use to investigate a client’s ethnic, cultural and religious traditions. It helps identify how deeply a person identifies themselves to their
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Heritage Assessment Maria Spencer Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Marcy Engebretson August 11, 2013 Heritage Assessment The Heritage Assessment tool consists of questions used to examine one's ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage. It defines how someone associates himself with a particular custom. It assists in comprehending someone's cultural beliefs. (Pearson Education, 2012) People who belong in a traditional ethno cultural heritage may have
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Running head: HERITAGE Heritage Assessment Lara Abdallah Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Health Promotion June 30, 2011 Heritage Assessment Different approaches to health care differ from one culture to another and are evident in the human race. In the health care field, having the knowledge that different people are usually shaped in life through the traditions that they were brought up with, some do use these traditional ways of health maintenance for their need for better health
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cultural surrounding conditions of health responses and humanizing one’s consideration to cultural differences in association with the administrative process and preferences in health care (Schmidt, 2012). Discussing the usefulness of applying a heritage evaluation in assessing the requirements of the whole person is helpful in looking at one’s roots and hereditary. The prominent sociable society in the world has raised worry on modified attention in health care. The cultural surroundings of an organization
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Cultural Heritage No wonder modern technology innovations keep coming out each year. Even with all the new changes and the fast lifestyles. Few things are resolute such as customs and traditions. Each country has a wealth of culture and heritage passed on from their ancestors. Many people believe and value the inheritance; ensure to transfer the tradition to the upcoming generations. The distinguishing civilization, inheritance, and traditions are unique for each nation. The heritage assessment tool
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vary from family to family. Culture is defined as the beliefs and customs of a particular group, place, or time (Spector, 2014). This paper will focus on current beliefs using heritage assessments; explore cultural beliefs, and health recovery of each culture discussed. Cultures represented are: Filipino, Italian, and Costa Rican. The Heritage tool is used to obtain the Health maintenance, promotion and restoration of families whose culture is reflected in everyday life. The Heritage assessment
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vary according to the heritage a family is part of. The Heritage Assessment Tool helps evaluate the family whom is interviewed in order to develop a plan for health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Each culture offers a different set of traditions and beliefs that contribute to the health care practices they participate in and how the traditions of that heritage are incorporated into the health practices present in the United States. The three families that were interviewed
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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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B O X 6 – 1 Heritage Assessment Tool Note: The greater the number of positive responses, the greater the person’s identification with a traditional heritage. The one exception to positive answers is the question about family name change. This question may be answered negatively. 1. Where was your mother born? United States 2. Where was your father born? United States 3. Where were your grandparents born? (1) Your mother’s mother? United States (2)
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