Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Heritage Assessment Health Traditions and Cultural Heritage As nurses it is important for us to remember and remain sensitive to the fact that every patient has their own set of beliefs about healthcare‚ treatments‚ medications‚ and wellness based upon their own set of health traditions and their cultural heritage. A patient’s health traditions and cultural values come from the culture they grew up in and the
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(Benchmark Assessment) Heritage Assessment Shantha Susai Grand Canyon university Health Promotion in Nursing Care NRS-429V RENITA HOLMES November 16‚ 2014 Heritage assessment is defined as a comprehensive evaluation of a person’s culture‚ where the person comes from‚ beliefs‚ family and ethnic back grounds‚ values and customs. Is also the process for identifying‚ predicting‚ evaluating and communicating the probable effects of a current or proposed care or for that person’s cultural life or community
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Heritage Assessment Applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of the whole person is useful in many ways. They may assist nurses and healthcare professionals in understanding the social positioning of the diverse cultural groups for whom they deliver care. This will allow for care based on an individual’s cultural values‚ beliefs‚ and practices‚ and to use this knowledge to give culturally specific nursing care to each patient. Let’s take a look at and compare health maintenance‚ health
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Heritage Assessment Roshanda Dixon Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V January 24‚ 2015 Abstract In this reading you will see three traditions that are different from each other. There’s Vietnamese‚ Africans and European Americans that have different views within each other health decisions‚ religious beliefs and environments they grew up in. A comparison in these three will be identified. A description of health benefits and the way they handle sickness and healing will also be identified
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Aim I am going to compare and contrast 3 pain assessment tools‚ which would be appropriate for use in our clinical area‚ using current literature‚ benchmarks and practice guidelines. If pain is what the person tell he is (McCaffery M‚ Pasero‚ 1999) therefore pain assessment tools should be based on the patient’s own perception of their pain and its severity. But sometimes it ’s difficult to express the pain that we feel into words. Pain assessment tools have two main categories: multi-dimensional
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In evaluating the Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) two things became immediately obvious. First‚ the questions provided a fair outline and structure for identifying factors of culture‚ religion‚ tradition and environment and how they may influence the subject family’s approach to health maintenance and health restoration. And second‚ that the medical professional using the HAT must be aware of and sensitive to the scrutinizing nature of the questions and what defensive and evasive responses they
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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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Peninsula Health Format: Assessment tool and Instructions for use Availability: Download FRAT Download Instructions for use The Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) was developed by the Peninsula Health Falls Prevention Service for a DH funded project in 1999‚ and is part of the FRAT Pack. A study evaluating the reliability and validity of the FRAT has been published (Stapleton C‚ Hough P‚ Bull K‚ Hill K‚ Greenwood K‚ Oldmeadow L (2009). A 4-item falls-risk screening tool for sub-acute and residential
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Assessment Tool Analysis NUR/440 Assessment Tools Analysis The purpose of this paper is to examine the tools that evaluate on-physical measures while applying Watson’s Theory of Human caring that integrates the mind-body-spirit dimensions to the three assessment tools chosen. In this paper‚ I will describe each tool and the population for which it might be useful‚ assessment tool data such as cost
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Running head: THE SPIRITUAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT TOOL The Spiritual Needs Assessment Tool Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT-310V September 06‚ 2011 The Spiritual Needs Assessment Tool For health care providers to deliver the best holistic care that patients deserve‚ a thorough spiritual assessment must be included during their care. With more research showing a relationship between supporting a patient’s spirituality with their health and ability to cope with illness
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