Heritage Assessment
Culture profoundly influences people’s health due to how it affects people’s view on disease, how they seek health care and how they communicate with health care providers. Working in an American, multicultural society, nurses must possess cultural competency in order to provide patient-centered care to meet patient’s needs and expectations. To assess a patient’s cultural heritage is a significant approach to understanding a patient’s cultural background. good
Usefulness of Applying a Heritage Assessment Spector (2000) designed a Heritage Assessment Tool which helps health care providers determine how a person adheres to his or her tradition. I was born and raised in China. When I immigrated to America, I was in my middle age. Therefore, I believed that I’ve instinctively absorbed a great deal of Chinese culture. The Heritage Assessment Tool helped me to understand that the place where people were born and raised is just one of the many factors that influence a people’s cultural formation. Many other factors, such as where your parents were born and raised, your religious preference, your friends, etc. affected people’s cultural heritage also. All my parents and grandparents were born and raised in other countries besides China although all of them were Chinese descendants. They had different cultural backgrounds and didn’t strictly observe Chinese tradition when they were living in China and raising me. They didn’t really know how to cook Chinese foods and how to celebrate Chinese traditional holidays. When my classmates visited my house, they were surprised that we didn’t have bowls and chopsticks, classic Chinese eating utensils, because we used plates and forks. The lack of religious preference was another important factor that leaded us to have fewer cultural heritages. The Heritage Assessment Tool makes me realize that we can’t simply judge a person’s cultural background according to their country of birth and ethnicity. This assessment just assists
Usefulness of Applying a Heritage Assessment Spector (2000) designed a Heritage Assessment Tool which helps health care providers determine how a person adheres to his or her tradition. I was born and raised in China. When I immigrated to America, I was in my middle age. Therefore, I believed that I’ve instinctively absorbed a great deal of Chinese culture. The Heritage Assessment Tool helped me to understand that the place where people were born and raised is just one of the many factors that influence a people’s cultural formation. Many other factors, such as where your parents were born and raised, your religious preference, your friends, etc. affected people’s cultural heritage also. All my parents and grandparents were born and raised in other countries besides China although all of them were Chinese descendants. They had different cultural backgrounds and didn’t strictly observe Chinese tradition when they were living in China and raising me. They didn’t really know how to cook Chinese foods and how to celebrate Chinese traditional holidays. When my classmates visited my house, they were surprised that we didn’t have bowls and chopsticks, classic Chinese eating utensils, because we used plates and forks. The lack of religious preference was another important factor that leaded us to have fewer cultural heritages. The Heritage Assessment Tool makes me realize that we can’t simply judge a person’s cultural background according to their country of birth and ethnicity. This assessment just assists