Example Of Heritage Assessment

Heritage assessment helps patients a chance to express their beliefs, and customs very clearly to the health providers. It also would help them to understand different cultures as well as help them to meet the patient’s needs. The heritage assessment is useful because it is an important step in building cultural competency through interviewing the patient and determining the things the patient value and respect most in life (Sankaran, 2007). This heritage assessment will give the nurse a clearer picture of the patient’s background and in the process will improve the quality of care and patient outcome (Schmidt & Owens, 2012). When we were child, did not notice that families and friends has different cults. However once become adult realize that everybody has their own different cultures and it is the part of life. Heritage assessments encourage understanding of another’s beliefs, health practices, traditions, and helping to know their own heritage. This paper will speaks
The Marco and the Vikas family viewed health maintenance in a more similar manner due to their religious beliefs, the important thing is their religious belief is different, for example Vikas has Hindu beliefs and Marco has Catholic beliefs, however their religious beliefs are very stronger. Even though the Vikas and Marco family religious beliefs are strong, they have different health maintenance routines. The Marco family comes from a Hispanic background. They are very conscientious of their physical health in regards to nutrition and diet, as they make strong efforts to exercise multiple times a week and cook highly nutritious meals. This may not be true for the entire Hispanic community; however Marco family had a high educational background. Sometime they use to consume alcohol very rarely tobacco as well. They go to bed early and arising early in the morning, having dinner around 07:00