Usefulness of heritage assessment tool
Heritage assessment toll is introduced to collect information about different cultures, nationalities and which helps healthcare professional to build a cultural competencies. The tool is used to investigate a particular ethnic group or population. As the United States becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, every individual’s basic needs to be addressed. Heritage assessment tool helps to identify and acknowledge one’s own cultural heritage and beliefs and how it influences one’s attitude and behavior in providing care .Culture is a specific pattern of behavior, which include belief, custom knowledge, and skills that distinguishes any society from others.
Heritage assessment tool determine how much a person adhere to their traditions. A traditional person always observes his or her traditional culture very closely. This tool is useful in performing heritage assessment depending on how deeply a person identify and answer question and also help to understand health tradition of a person. The greater number of positive response shows the person’s greater identification with traditional heritage.
Assessing an individual’s cultural heritage is the first and most important step to
Identify the communication barrier of a person from another culture. Each culture views the world differently. Based on their beliefs and practices, people from different ethno cultural heritage define health and illness differently. Their cultural background, religion, influences a person’s health and beliefs .A nurse must understand these diverse cultures and their impotence when providing care. The tool helps to clarify and acknowledge one’s own cultural heritage and beliefs and how it influences one’s attitude, behavior and traditional health methods used to maintain health protect health and restore health.
Cultural heritage plays a big role