Assessing Family Health Patterns: Evaluating the Usefulness of a Heritage Assessment Tool Sarah Potter Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0191 October 5‚ 2014 Assessing Family Health Patterns: Evaluating the Usefulness of a Heritage Assessment Tool In the United States today cultural diversity is growing more prevalent every day. The report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM: Unequal treatment‚ 2002) presented information that racial and ethnic minorities of all ages receive lower
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Heritage Assessment Cultural heritage plays a big role in the economic‚ social and health promotion of the individual. The use of heritage assessment tools helps healthcare providers evaluate and look at someone’s heritage‚ as well as traditional health methods used to maintain health‚ protect health‚ and restore health; by applying these concepts it helps healthcare professionals deal with a person’s physical‚ mental‚ and spiritual beliefs. Different cultures have different values and beliefs
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Home Page » 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
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Heritage Assessment Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group. Cultural heritage is a set of traditions within the culture that is hand down from the older generation to the younger generation within the family. These traditions influence the family’s decisions in relation to their diet‚ education‚ daily living activities‚ religious beliefs and practices and also health and illness beliefs. In this paper‚ the author will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage
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Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V 05/19/2013 Before asking the questions from Heritage Assessment tool‚ meaning of Cultural Heritage must be known. Cultural Assessment is legacy of intangible attributes and cultural property of a society or a group that are descended from the past generations‚ maintained in the current generation and carried forward for the betterment of the future generations. Tangible culture such as landscapes‚ buildings‚ books‚ art and artifacts‚ intangible
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Heritage Assessment and Health Management Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V July/ 12/2013 Heritage Assessment and Health Management Heritage is a genetic gene of culture. Every community has their own culture and it vary in individual to individual (ANA2011).By heritage a culture pass onto generations to generations its beliefs‚ customs‚ practices‚ values and traditions .It has an important role on the community for development of the future of society (Culture in development).Heritage
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Heritage Assessment Introduction Over the past 20 years a significant social movement in America has amplified public awareness toward the promotion of health and disease prevention‚ known as Healthy People 2000 and 2010. It has been beneficial in changing the focus of health care from a reactive standpoint to a proactive one‚ which endorses national health and prevention of disease (Edelmam & Mandle‚ 2010). However delivery of health care objectives is not enough. Health providers must recognize
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Heritage Assessment NRS-429V | Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion John Thomas 3/24/13 The Heritage Assessment tool is primarily used as a device to evaluate health maintenance‚ health protection‚ and health restoration of a person’s cultural beliefs and values (Spector‚ 2006). This assessment helps aid in providing quality patient care in that it helps to meet and respect the needs of different types of people and their respective backgrounds (Spector‚ 2002). This particular
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usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in assessing the needs of persons as a whole‚ three different family’s opinions on health maintenance‚ health protection and health restoration. Moreover‚ the writer will identify health traditions as regards to cultural heritage of the writer‚ then how the three families interviewed in this paper practice their traditions and how important their rituals and practices are to them. The Usefulness of Applying a Heritage Assessment “Heritage is the full range
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Definition Heritage Assessment is who we are‚ our history‚ and where we come from. Heritage means ones background or tradition. Heritage Assessments are unique for each nation; it is a part to the overall nursing assessment. At any time at any place‚ there are many different groups of people that live in that particular place and all these people have diverse believes about health‚ illness‚ disease‚ birth and death‚ which are directed by their culture. Ones heritage includes information
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