restoration of their own health. All cultures approach health care management by their cultures own worldly views. The usefulness of a heritage assessment tool is to identify the needs of a person as a whole. This can be an effective way to gain insight and help determine a course of action most beneficial for that particular person. Part of the assessment tool that is useful in identifying particular characteristics of a person is the origin of birth of the persons’ parents, identifying their ethnicity
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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 tool also helps to evaluate family support and relationships, therefore helping to assess
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Running head: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION IN NURSING Heritage Assessment and Implementation in Nursing Katrina L. Ford Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V September 8, 2012 A heritage assessment in nursing is a vital tool to learning about a patient. By finding out about the patient’s family and friends we can learn about their support system. If we learn how close to a culture our patient is this will give us an idea of how true they hold their beliefs or if they
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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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------------------------------------------------- Case Study Instructions: This is an individual assessment. You are acting as the CEO of New Heritage Doll company and you need to decide which investment projects can create values for shareholders’ wealth, so that the company can receive funding in the next five years. Your 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
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are directed by culture. Heritage assessment is an important step towards building understanding of cultural competency, a phenomenon that recognizes diversity, both in linguistic and cultural adeptness by the health care provider. A person’s culture, beliefs, heritage, and language have a substantial impact both as a patient and a health care provider within the health care system (Spector, 2009). Although only 29 questions were supplied in the heritage assessment tool, the questions cleared a
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT 2 Abstract This paper explores the discussion of formative assessment in the classroom. It will do so by focusing on four discussions: (1) Describe how formative assessment is used in a class. (2) Explain the role psychometric models play in the creation of your assessment. (3) Explain the use of observational situations in formative Assessment. (4) Discuss expected challenges in your assessments, and how could they be addressed. These discussions will bring forward
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Heritage Assessment Melody Tejada Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V April 17, 2011 Heritage Assessment Throughout the years, people and families from a diverse group of cultures and religions have developed many health traditions and practices based on their culture and heritage. Most people that grow up having followed certain practices continue to do so into adulthood and also pass those traditions down to their children and so on. However, there are also those who break out of the
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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 ASSESSMENT LYNN BAKER GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY: NRS 429 V MARCH 24, 2013 Culture is the foundation of all social distinctiveness and advancement. Culture heritage is the legacy that each generation receives and passes to the next generation. It includes all the aspects of a community’s past and present that is considered valuable and desires to pass on to future generations. People have different beliefs concerning health, illness, diseases, life and death; which are guided by
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