Cultural and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion Rosa Diaz Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NUR-429V Geri Chesebrough April 22, 2012 According to Cultural Diversity in Nursing, cultural competence is “obtaining cultural information and then applying that knowledge. This cultural awareness allows you to see the entire picture and improves the quality of care and health outcomes”. With today’s diverse society, to better serve the people, healthcare providers
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HERITAGE ASSESSMENT GRAND CANYON UNVERSITY FAMILY-CENTERED HEALTH PROMOTION NRS-429V-0506 February 13, 2015 HERITAGE ASSESSMENT America having been a very welcoming nation with welcoming people continues to experience immigrants from other parts of the world in search of better living standards and employment opportunities, hence has a high growing population with diverse cultures .This writer is a new immigrant from Africa .For that reason it is important for nurses to learn the health
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Running head: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Heritage Assessment Susamma J Charles Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion 02-May-2012 (O101) Professor Patricia King June 03, 2012 Heritage Assessment The United States of America prospers on diversity. Every individual should be pleased with where they originally came from because of race, religion, and more importantly, culture. The definition of culture is “the shared knowledge and schemes created by a set of
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Family Health and Nursing Practice University of Phoenix NUR 542: Dynamics of Family Systems May 25, 2010 Traditional hospital based nursing care is most often care provided to individual patients. Individual patients, however, are members of a family. Family nursing practice has evolved over the past 20 years as a way to approach and work with families. Effective nursing care ensures that the entire family’s situation, not only the illness of the loved one, is considered (Maijala & Astedt-Kurki
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Community Assessment Reflection Cynthia Caston NUR/405 March 31, 2013 Willadene Walker-Schmucker Community Assessment Reflection Community Health Partnerships It is so important for different agencies in the community to partner with each other, this helps ensure that people get directed toward the community resource they are in need of. In my families community The Clay County Health Department does eligibility assessments and referrals for social services in addition to all the services
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Family Heritage Assessment Stacey Bury, RN Grand Canyon University: Nursing 429V April 28, 2012 This paper will seek to understand 3 different cultures with utilization of the Heritage Assessment Tool. The purpose of the Heritage Asessment Tool in health promotion is to gain clarity on different cultures and their families. Increasing diversity of the United States (US) population is a reality in the 21st century. The Census 2000 indicates that one out of four persons in the US are non-Whites
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Heritage Assessment A. Holm, RN Grand Canyon University: 429 V 08/24/2014 Heritage Assessment It is very important to address the heritage of every patient we become the caregiver for. This will ensure that we provide care that is culturally competent and gain the trust and respect of the patient and family. Since respect and trust are not given, but earned, addressing the fear everyone has upon having to depend on medical/nursing care for themselves or their family will put the patient
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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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Cultural Assessment Purnell Model: Cultural Assessment Ashley Bell Western New Mexico University August 29, 2010 Cultural Assessment Purnell Model Overview and Heritage S. R. is a 31-year old soft spoken Filipino female. Her primary language is English. Her family dialect of Tagalog is understood, but not spoken fluently. Tagalog is the national language in the Philippine society, and English is the second official language. (McBride, 2001) Presently she resides in Pearland Texas
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Heritage Assessment With the increase in diverse population in the United States, the nurses in America need to Know the importance of culture and heritage importance in health care. .People from different parts of world carry different cultures . Each culture overview health in different ways. Understanding the culture make it easy to provide quality health care to individuals and families. Every culture have their own health
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