Assessment of Heritage Grand Canyon University September 7, 2014 Assessment of Heritage Heritage Assessments There are so many different types of people in this world. As nurses work in their everyday environment they run into many different cultures and people. Utilizing an assessment tool to help guide one in the
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Heritage Assessment: Evaluation of families, cultures and views on health Anniemae Stubbs Grand Canyon University Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion NURS 429 Professor Alma Celaya June 19, 2016 Heritage Assessment: Evaluation of families , cultures and views on health Cultural Heritage is a concept that is passed on from one generation to the next that depicts how people live, act, behave, or think. It can be a noticeable or vague manifestation. It includes various customs
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Multicultural Assessment Norma Garcia Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Serina Madden February 25, 2015 Multicultural Assessment The author of this paper is a student at Grand Canyon University who is currently taking Family Centered Health Promotion. The topic discussed in class this week was, Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion. The corresponding assignment to this course was to perform a heritage assessment; three families of the community
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Heritage Assessment Tool Samantha Rich Grand Canyon University May 21, 2013 The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is a way to asses an individual’s ethnic, religious, and cultural heritage as well as health traditions. Using this tool allows healthcare providers to deliver high quality patient care as well as develop a therapeutic relationship and healing approach. Being able to deliver high quality care to patients and families is of utmost importance for nurses. In order to be most efficient in
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Heritage and Health Assessment NRS 429 V December 5, 2010 The United States is considered the melting pot because it hosts people from every background and culture. “Healthcare providers nee to become responsive to the cultural values of different peoples and how these could augment effective and humanistic care delivery” (Edelman & Mandle, 2006). It is crucial for nurses that work at the bedside to be aware
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Heritage Assessment Heritage is who we are, where we come from, it’s our history. Traditionally the word heritage means one back ground or tradition. Each individual’s heritage varies between different cultures and consists of determination of one’s ethnic, religious, and cultural background (Spector, 2009). The heritage assessment tool helps healthcare professionals evaluate someone’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs which in turn helps with determining traditional health methods such
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Heritage Assessment The United States (US) is a multicultural society. People from all over the world reside in the US. There are many customs, religion, values, beliefs, and so forth, in the US. To be in the healthcare profession, it is vital and necessary to be culturally aware and competent to provide culturally appropriate, holistic care. One of the ways to learn about a person’s heritage is by using the Heritage Assessment (HA). The HA tool has 29 questions and is a reliable method used to
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Different Cultures and Their Health Traditions The Heritage Assessment Tool is a valuable tool that can be used by health care professionals to help them become aware of the client’s ethnic, religious and cultural background in relation to their views on health, illness and diseases. As defined by Winkelman, culture, is an element of ethnicity, consists of shared patterns of values and behaviors that characterize a particular group (as cited in Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p.32) Assessing these culturally
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Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion 03.20.2016 Kristine Matteson In healthcare there is ethnic and cultural diversity in our patient population. Healthcare workers consider the cultural and ethnic backgrounds while interacting and treating
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research articles that will be presented together in this paper. A key word search was performed, and the search results were limited to full text articles that were also peer reviewed. The first key words were “sickle cell” and the second key word was “nursing”. This resulted in several pages of resources, and all of the six selections were chosen from among the most recent available, and the ones that
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