Heritage Assessment Tool: Varying Cultures Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V Heritage Assessment Tool: Varying Cultures Introduction The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic‚ cultural‚ and religious background
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The Heritage Assessment Tool Kacey McIntee Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Jane Parkman December 21‚ 2012 The Heritage Assessment Tool The uprising of diversified communications has caused the combination of differing cultures. This suggests that dissimilar cultures are no not restricted to geographical boundaries. The noteworthy social drive worldwide has elevated apprehension over tailored health care. It is vital that the cultural backgrounds of a group have
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Heritage Assessment Tool Samantha Rich Grand Canyon University May 21‚ 2013 The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is a way to asses an individual’s ethnic‚ religious‚ and cultural heritage as well as health traditions. Using this tool allows healthcare providers to deliver high quality patient care as well as develop a therapeutic relationship and healing approach. Being able to deliver high quality care to patients and families is of utmost importance for nurses. In order to be
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Running head: HERITAGE ASSESSMENT. Benchmark Assessment Ifeyinwa Alozie. Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0500 02/22/15 HERITAGE ASSESSMENT Identifying common Health Traditions Based on Cultural Heritage. Cultural heritage is the endowment of tangible artifacts and intangible characteristic of a group or society inherited from past generations‚ preserved in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generation. Due to the growth of cultural diversity in the United
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The Heritage Assessment Tool Jenna Franz Grand Canyon University Family- Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Melinda Darling April 20‚ 2013 The Heritage Assessment Tool Do to changing in the ways of communication and different cultures no longer having restrictions of geographical areas‚ health care is having to make changes in the way patients are assessed and treated. “Adapting to different cultural beliefs and practices requires flexibility‚ and respect for other viewpoints.”("Cultural
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indicator for pain. 6. Recall question for initial pain assessment. Where is the Location of the pain‚ Duration: is the pain consent‚ does it keep you awake‚ quality: what does the pain feel like is the pain dull‚ burning‚ aching? Intensity of the pain: how strong is the pain on a scale of 0-10 zero being no pain and 10 being extreme pain. What makes the pain worst? What makes the pain better? 7. Select pain assessment tools that are appropriate for
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selected items are included in assessment tools that are used frequently with LBP patients. Five items were derived from SF-12 41 which is a generic assessment tool‚ 2 items were derived from the BPI 38‚ a clinical pain tool‚ and one item was derived from ODI 41‚ a LBP functional disability assessment tool. However‚ there is no available LBP-specific HRQOL assessment tool; the tool developed in this study is considered to be a LBP-specific tool. Having a specific assessment tool (i.e. LBP-HRQOL) is likely
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Assessment Tool Analysis NUR/440 Version 3 October 22‚ 2012 Sheila De Vaugh‚ APRN‚ BC Assessment Tool Analysis Paper The “American Nurses Association” (2012) website describes the nursing process as assessment‚ diagnosis‚ outcomes/planning‚ implementation‚ and evaluation. Another important tool is getting to know the patient‚ to get a full picture of the patient’s physical and mental status. Although there are several assessment tools that can be used‚ three tools were chosen for the purpose
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The History of psychological assessment tools in America is a wide spread measure of testing that has historical roots. In this paper‚ I will examine the history of psychological assessment tools‚ the types of assessments being used today‚ and the validity of assessment tools. What is psychological assessment? Psychological assessment is a process that involves information from a series of sources‚ like personality tests‚ intelligence tests and personal interviews. Many psychologists do
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This essay discusses assessment and sets out to discover if assessment is one the most powerful tools for promoting effective learning. Some of the different forms of assessment and their advantages and disadvantages will be explored. Assessment the process of documenting‚ in measurable terms‚ knowledge‚ skills‚ attitudes and beliefs as well as how it is applied in the work of teachers on a daily basis will be discussed. Assessment is a global term and can incorporate oral‚ written‚ observational
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