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Latasha Rice, WCC- RN
Grand Canyon University: NRS 429v
Date: 8/31/2012
What is a heritage assessment? A heritage assessment is a subpart to the overall nursing assessment. Assessing a patient’s heritage allows the nurse to obtain more information about a patient’s culture, including beliefs about health and values, this is important to providing cultural health care. One’s heritage includes information about their cultural beliefs and practices of the family and ethno religious community (Jarvis, C., 2012). Through a heritage assessment the nurse can obtain a vast amount of information about the patient/ family, including but not limited to, where ancestors were born, how many siblings they have, if the family originated in another country, how often time is spent with family, religion, if the patient prefers the company of people with the same values and religion or ethnic background, what type of foods the patient prepares, and the patient’s native language. This paper will discuss what the author learned from completing a heritage assessment tool, the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool when assessing a patient/ family/ community as a whole. This paper will also compare the health traditions of three different families (and cultures) to include, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration, while identifying common traditions based on the author’s heritage. What the families ascribe their traditions to will also be discussed.
To begin, what was learned from the heritage assessment tool and why it is useful to apply a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of a “whole” person should be discussed. Useful information and insight was gained from completing the heritage assessment tool. Once complete, there were lots of negative responses noted,
Other Topics
Heritage Assessment
In: Other Topics
Heritage Assessment
Heritage Assessment
Latasha Rice, WCC- RN
Grand Canyon University: NRS 429v
Date: 8/31/2012
What is a heritage assessment? A heritage assessment is a subpart to the overall nursing assessment. Assessing a patient’s heritage allows the nurse to obtain more information about a patient’s culture, including beliefs about health and values, this is important to providing cultural health care. One’s heritage includes information about their cultural beliefs and practices of the family and ethno religious community (Jarvis, C., 2012). Through a heritage assessment the nurse can obtain a vast amount of information about the patient/ family, including but not limited to, where ancestors were born, how many siblings they have, if the family originated in another country, how often time is spent with family, religion, if the patient prefers the company of people with the same values and religion or ethnic background, what type of foods the patient prepares, and the patient’s native language. This paper will discuss what the author learned from completing a heritage assessment tool, the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool when assessing a patient/ family/ community as a whole. This paper will also compare the health traditions of three different families (and cultures) to include, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration, while identifying common traditions based on the author’s heritage. What the families ascribe their traditions to will also be discussed.
To begin, what was learned from the heritage assessment tool and why it is useful to apply a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of a “whole” person should be discussed. Useful information and insight was gained from completing the heritage assessment tool. Once complete, there were lots of negative responses noted,
References: Edelman, C., Mandle, C., 2010. Health promotion throughout the life span. 7. Available at pageburst website: http://pageburstls.elsevier.com/#/books/9780323056625/pages/4912990 Jarvis, Carolyn, 2012. Physical Examination & Health Assessment. 6th ed. Available at pageburst website: http://pageburstls.elsevier.com/#/books/978-1-4377-0151-7/pages/52900213. Spector, R. E., 2000.Heritage assessment tool. Cultural care: Guide to heritage assessment and health traditions. 5th ed. Available at the GCU Angel website: http://angel05.gcu.edu/section/default.asp?id=1293881