Heritage Assessment
Review of Literature
Lani Pioh
Grand Canyon University: NRS 429
December 9, 2012
Review of Literature
In this paper, the writer will discuss on the 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 of the people inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture. Most important, it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings, and behaviors that people draw from them” (Umass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, n.d.). “Culture is shaped by values, beliefs, and norms, and practices that are shared by members of the same cultural group” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Cultural heritage plays a key role in person’s financial, and well-being.
The heritage assessment tool assists nurses to identify and view at individual’s culture as well as traditional health ways to conserve, protect and restore health. Heritage assessment is an imperative move approaching framework considerate of cultural competency, a prodigy that determined diversity both in phonological and cultural proficiency by the health care providers. “Cultural competency refers to the ability of nurses to understand and accept the cultural backgrounds of individuals and provide care that best meets the person’s needs—not the nurses” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). In addition, this heritage assessment will assist the writer and the nurses be aware of own self heritage culture.
Arab Americans
Arabic population was commonly arranged and led by families or tribes and the family remains an imperative institution. “Families are
Lani Pioh
Grand Canyon University: NRS 429
December 9, 2012
Review of Literature
In this paper, the writer will discuss on the 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 of the people inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture. Most important, it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings, and behaviors that people draw from them” (Umass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, n.d.). “Culture is shaped by values, beliefs, and norms, and practices that are shared by members of the same cultural group” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Cultural heritage plays a key role in person’s financial, and well-being.
The heritage assessment tool assists nurses to identify and view at individual’s culture as well as traditional health ways to conserve, protect and restore health. Heritage assessment is an imperative move approaching framework considerate of cultural competency, a prodigy that determined diversity both in phonological and cultural proficiency by the health care providers. “Cultural competency refers to the ability of nurses to understand and accept the cultural backgrounds of individuals and provide care that best meets the person’s needs—not the nurses” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). In addition, this heritage assessment will assist the writer and the nurses be aware of own self heritage culture.
Arab Americans
Arabic population was commonly arranged and led by families or tribes and the family remains an imperative institution. “Families are
References: Ahmad, N. (2004) Arab-American culture and health care. Retrieved from http:// www.cwru.edu/med/epidbio/mphp439/Arab-Americans.htm Endelman, C. & Mandle, C. L. (2010) Health promotion throughout the life span (7th ed.) St Health_and _research_cente_21.pdf. December 9, 2012.