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    Heritage Assessment of Cultures January18‚ 2013 Heritage assessment is a useful tool to assess family’s identification with traditional culture. It is important to recognize the cultural background and understand how people came up with the consequent remedies of health promotion and maintenance. An interview of European‚ Chinese‚ and Hispanic cultures presents different culture bound beliefs‚ practices‚ and behaviors that are used for health protection and restoration. The national

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    Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS 429 V August 15‚ 2012 Family Health Assessment “A family is a set of interacting individuals related by marriage‚ blood‚ and adoption or by cohabitation interdependently perform relevant functions to fulfill expected role” (Edelman & Mandle‚ 2010). Systems theory allows a nurse to view patient as a whole family unit‚ which the action of each member will influence one another. Family

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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 Dwayne Brown RN CPAN Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NURS-429v Renita Holmes July 13‚ 2014 Heritage Assessment Being present in one of the world’s largest medical centers allows for a nurse to experience multiple cultures in the care of patients and communities. The heritage assessment tool can be utilized by nurses to understand differences among cultural values as they relate to health maintenance‚ health promotion and health restoration. Collecting

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    Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V July 27‚ 2014 As nurses we come in contact with a wide variety of individuals‚ they all come from different backgrounds whether it is related to education‚ social class‚ ethnicity‚ or religion. Each individual has their own culture beliefs and it is our duty as nurses to recognize and investigate what those beliefs are to have a better understanding of them and to help guide us in providing the best possible care we can for each patient we

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    Running Head: Heritage Assessment Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS-429V January 22‚ 2011   Heritage Assessment Heritage is as individual as a fingerprint when it comes to some cultures. Every individual has their own heritage‚ and this is very different between different cultures. Heritage consists of determination of one’s ethnic‚ religious‚ and cultural background (Spector‚ 2009). When we look at someone’s heritage‚ we look at traditional health methods used to maintain

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    Heritage Assessment In our day to day job as nurses‚ we come across patients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is our duty to make them feel at ease with the care they are receiving and to be able to do so‚ it is imperative that nurses become culturally competent by understanding how the patients’ culture influences their views on health protection‚ maintenance and restoration. Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group (Winkleman‚ 2001). The Heritage

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    The heritage assessment is developed to assist the healthcare provider cultivate a therapeutic relationship and approach in care. The use of this assessment tool provides an informative approach of care for the multiple cultural backgrounds that a provider may come into contact with. Clark‚ 2002 states‚ “A succinct knowledge of trans-cultural or multicultural setting within the healthcare realms is helpful in bolstering efforts towards attaining the primary care role of nursing. Thus‚ when working

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    Heritage Assessment Heritage assessment is quite crucial as it is used as a tool to acquire information about a community’s cultural background‚ traditions‚ spiritual life‚ lang8uage‚ health status and social life. Heritage assessment is employed in the healthcare sector for various functions like assessment of a people’s culture‚ providing awareness with regards to health restoration‚ protection and maintenance. Heritage assessment is also employed by the nursing fraternity in provision of medical

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    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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