Home For The Holidays: A Cultural Assignment
Cultural Assessment Assignment
Submitted by
Jae Hee Hyun, RN
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of
Legacy of the Family and NURS 3352
Rebecca Padgett, MSN, RN
November 22, 2014
In the country of the United States of America there are many cultures mixed together which leads to everyone’s appreciation of different ethno cultural groups. As a result, many health care professionals are concerned with providing culturally sensitive patient education. However, it is a daunting task for nurses and other health care providers to become familiar with the cultural dynamics of all the various cultural groups in the United States. Rather than taking on the virtually impossible task of learning about multiple cultures, it is more practical and helpful for nurses to use a generic approach in doing a cultural assessment. I have decided to watch the movie, “Home for the Holidays”. This movie is about the main character, Claudia Larson, losing her job then ending up making out with her soon to be former boss and lastly finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend. Then ultimately ends up spending the holidays with her family. Claudia Larson is a single mother, with two …show more content…
The competence ranges from optimal, adequate, midrange, severely borderline dysfunctional. I feel the movie. Home for the Holidays, depicted more of a borderline family. The family exhibited limited improvement in relation to functioning over the former level. The family in the movie had lack of authority, disorder of dictatorship, and a system governed by black and white perceptions. For example, when the daughter wanted to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia did not do much of anything to teach her child. The family gathering also included Claudia’s resentful, conservative sister, Joanne, with her banker brother in law Walter and their two
Submitted by
Jae Hee Hyun, RN
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of
Legacy of the Family and NURS 3352
Rebecca Padgett, MSN, RN
November 22, 2014
In the country of the United States of America there are many cultures mixed together which leads to everyone’s appreciation of different ethno cultural groups. As a result, many health care professionals are concerned with providing culturally sensitive patient education. However, it is a daunting task for nurses and other health care providers to become familiar with the cultural dynamics of all the various cultural groups in the United States. Rather than taking on the virtually impossible task of learning about multiple cultures, it is more practical and helpful for nurses to use a generic approach in doing a cultural assessment. I have decided to watch the movie, “Home for the Holidays”. This movie is about the main character, Claudia Larson, losing her job then ending up making out with her soon to be former boss and lastly finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend. Then ultimately ends up spending the holidays with her family. Claudia Larson is a single mother, with two …show more content…
The competence ranges from optimal, adequate, midrange, severely borderline dysfunctional. I feel the movie. Home for the Holidays, depicted more of a borderline family. The family exhibited limited improvement in relation to functioning over the former level. The family in the movie had lack of authority, disorder of dictatorship, and a system governed by black and white perceptions. For example, when the daughter wanted to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia did not do much of anything to teach her child. The family gathering also included Claudia’s resentful, conservative sister, Joanne, with her banker brother in law Walter and their two