screening instruments and assessments tools that exist. There is a specific instrument available to help counselors determine whether further assessment is warranted, the nature and extent of a client’s abuse, whether a client has a mental disorder, what types of traumatic experiences a client has had and what they consequences are and treatment related factors that impact their response to interventions. This TIP makes no recommendations of the tools needed for screening and assessment for women.”ncbi.nlm
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Linda’s Heritage Assessment Paper Cultural differences abound in America today. Approaches to health also differ from one culture to another. People are shaped by their traditions and use traditional ways to satisfy their needs for better health (Agec, 2012). America is a melting pot of different cultures. This cultural diversity comes with differences in health traditions and health decisions. It could be a religious approach to health or a cultural tradition
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patients, a prognosis could lead to a diminished sense of self and reduction in the quality of life, not just for said patient but also for the families or caregivers. In order to better understand dementia and those who suffer from it, let’s look at potential strategies and challenges to engage dementia clients, how to conduct a biopsychosocial assessment of dementia clients, and take ethical consideration into account in respect to a single client that I have chosen, EP. EP is a sixty-nine year
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Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University – NRS 429 Benchmark Assignment – Heritage Assessment Our ever-growing multicultural and ethnically diverse United States population makes it challenging for health care professionals to provide culturally competent and effective holistic care to these groups. It is imperative that health education strategies include performing a heritage assessment to include a person’s ethnic background, cultural heritage, health
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Family Health Risk Assessment: Friedman Family Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V October 19, 2014 Introduction As nurses, we are concerned with not only and individual’s health, we are concerned with a family’s health. How a family interacts with health matters greatly influences how an individual will address their own health care issues. This paper uses Gordon’s Functional Health Pattern as the context for a family health assessment and interview that was conducted with
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passed, my family wanted to do a traditional prayer ceremony for her in the hospital. It is where we have a monk in the same room, doing the a Buddhist Prayer for peace. Indeed, with the help of the staff members on her floor, the nurses understood why my family request a monk to do a Buddhist Prayer and to have our whole family attends the prayer. In fact, the nurses would only allow two people to see my grandmother at a time, but in this case, the nurses allowed to have my whole family and the monk
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Cultural and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion Rosa Diaz Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NUR-429V Geri Chesebrough April 22, 2012 According to Cultural Diversity in Nursing, cultural competence is “obtaining cultural information and then applying that knowledge. This cultural awareness allows you to see the entire picture and improves the quality of care and health outcomes”. With today’s diverse society, to better serve the people, healthcare providers
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Heritage Assessment February 17, 2013 Heritage Assessment Cultural heritage is the representation of artistic or symbolic signs that are delivered to the future generation in every culture to keep its distinctiveness to whole human beings. The corner stone for any cultural policy is the preservation and presentation of the cultural heritage. The heritage assessment tool helps us evaluate and study the cultural experiences of people from various cultures. This assessment tool allows us to
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Running head: BORETZKY FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Boretzky Family Health Assessment Michelle Phoebe Baltazar Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V September 8, 2012 Boretzky Family Health Assessment Gordon’s functional health pattern assessment is a tool that nurses can use to analyze a person’s whole being that incorporates every aspect of that person. Through this approach, nurses can ensure that holistic care is provided. The Boretzky family was therefore interviewed to analyze
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is a form of formal assessment. I can view how well each student does and can see what we will need to discuss as a whole class. The Ticket Out the Door is a form of informal assessment to see what they students learned from the lesson as well. Lesson 2, has a quick write as an exit ticket. The exit ticket will have students use prior knowledge and information from the lesson to make an inference. The students will also anticipate the drama. Lesson 3’s informal assessment will be in the form
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