heritage assignment
Heritage assessment
Grand Canyon University
Heritage assessment
Introduction
The Heritage Assessment Tool can be adopted as a dependable tool to gauge, health maintenance, restoration and safeguard of personal, cultural beliefs. The adoption of health assessment tool helps meet the prerequisites of diverse patient populations to offer quality all-inclusive care. The following paper reviews the assessment of three culturally dissimilar families, and demonstrate how a nurse would continue with health promotion centred on the variances in health traditions between the three cultures. The three cultures include Hispanic culture, Native American Indian culture and White American culture. The objectives of this essay are to recognise different cultural families and their own shared health traditions grounded on their cultural heritage. Practices and traditions will be evaluated and how th families ascribe to them. The assessment of these diverse cultures discloses likenesses and differences in traditions that can help deliver holistic ideal health delivery.
Health Maintenance
The value a patient puts on his or her perceived family support system and values can greatly affect their overall health maintenance. Two families interviewed one from an American Indian background, and the other from a Hispanic background placed a great value in their family associations and relationships (Askim-Lovseth & Aldana, 2010). Families from both backgrounds were able to express knowledge and awareness of an extended family network and were vigorous participants of that social system. To these both cultural groups, the family unit is the most important support system (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). A family network in these both families, are expected to assist each other during hard times, and offer assistance in case of financial or health problems. A white family household, was the third family to be interviewed. This family placed a
Grand Canyon University
Heritage assessment
Introduction
The Heritage Assessment Tool can be adopted as a dependable tool to gauge, health maintenance, restoration and safeguard of personal, cultural beliefs. The adoption of health assessment tool helps meet the prerequisites of diverse patient populations to offer quality all-inclusive care. The following paper reviews the assessment of three culturally dissimilar families, and demonstrate how a nurse would continue with health promotion centred on the variances in health traditions between the three cultures. The three cultures include Hispanic culture, Native American Indian culture and White American culture. The objectives of this essay are to recognise different cultural families and their own shared health traditions grounded on their cultural heritage. Practices and traditions will be evaluated and how th families ascribe to them. The assessment of these diverse cultures discloses likenesses and differences in traditions that can help deliver holistic ideal health delivery.
Health Maintenance
The value a patient puts on his or her perceived family support system and values can greatly affect their overall health maintenance. Two families interviewed one from an American Indian background, and the other from a Hispanic background placed a great value in their family associations and relationships (Askim-Lovseth & Aldana, 2010). Families from both backgrounds were able to express knowledge and awareness of an extended family network and were vigorous participants of that social system. To these both cultural groups, the family unit is the most important support system (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). A family network in these both families, are expected to assist each other during hard times, and offer assistance in case of financial or health problems. A white family household, was the third family to be interviewed. This family placed a
References: Askim-Lovseth, M., & Aldana, A. (2010). Looking beyond "affordable" health care: cultural understanding and sensitivity-necessities in addressing the health care disparities of the U.S. Hispanic population. Health Marketing Quarterly, 27(4), 354-387. Edelman, C., & Mandle, C. L. (2010). Health promotion throughout the life span (7th ed.). St. Louis: Mosby.