Assessing Culture When a nurse walks into a patient’s room an assessment begins. The nurse will begin to assess things such as the central line, IVs, the patient’s orientation but also the nurse assesses the patient’s look, language and the dynamics of the family in the room. Without meaning to the nurse will assume things about the patient’s culture and some may even adjust their care under the assumption. Our country has a wide variety of different cultures, which can make nursing care at times
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Heritage and Cultural Assessment Gathering information about a patient’s culture is an essential part of the nursing assessment. The importance of a comprehensive cultural assessment cannot be underestimated. Race, ethnicity, and cultural values influence a patient’s view of health and potential treatments. My first experiences with culture were relatively benign. I grew up in small-town Iowa where there was one African-American family and a smattering of families of Asian or Indian descent. The
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Running Head: Heritage Assessment Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS-429V January 22, 2011 Heritage Assessment Heritage is as individual as a fingerprint when it comes to some cultures. Every individual has their own heritage, and this is very different between different cultures. Heritage consists of determination of one’s ethnic, religious, and cultural background (Spector, 2009). When we look at someone’s heritage, we look at traditional health methods used to maintain
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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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Assignment – Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University – NRS 429 Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment Our ever-growing multicultural and ethnically diverse United States population makes it challenging for health care professionals to provide culturally competent and effective holistic care to these groups. It is imperative that health education strategies include performing a heritage assessment to include a person’s ethnic background, cultural heritage, health traditions
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Different people have different beliefs regarding sickness, wellness, and birth as well as death which direct various forms of culture. The Heritage Assessment tool is used in order to build a greater understanding of cultural beliefs. Although the assessment is only composed of a few questions, it is used as a pathway to open up discussions regarding one’s own values about sickness, health, religion, and family support systems. This assignment will discuss and measure diversity and similarities
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Case Study admin | April 3, 2013 Case Study Acting as the CEO of New Heritage Doll company and need to decide which investment projects can create values for shareholders’ wealth so that the company can receive funding in the next five years. Student’s task is to evaluate proposed projects using the financial and qualitative information provided and to select projects to be approved for a given year’s investment plan using any evaluation criteria deem appropriate. Students are to submit the simulation
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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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Heritage Assessment Health Tradition and Cultural Comparison Sharon Nodine Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V March 20, 2016 “A growing realization that the United States is not a ‘melting pot’ in which immigrants assimilate into the mainstream culture, but a country of many cultures has led to a growing appreciation of different ethno-cultural groups” (EuroMed Info, n.d.). The Heritage Tool and it’s five competencies is designed to provide a framework for nurses to gain insight
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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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