Cultural Health Beliefs: Health Traditions in the Chines, Hispanic, and American Cultures Modern day American nurses, require cultural competencies in order to provide care to the diverse population in the United States. This population of nurses provide medical care to patients who are from all areas of the earth. There are distinct cultural differences in health traditions. The three areas of health traditions that an RN must assess are, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration
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Tool is useful in determining how connected an individual is to their specific culture which enables the culturally competent practitioner to identify health traditions, evaluate needs, and create appropriate plans for health maintenance, protection and/or restoration of the patient. Heritage and culture are interchangeable words that represent the concept of learned or inherited thought processes, ideas, and traditions that have been passed down from parentage, nationality and/or ethnicity. It is
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the interviewer to ask questions that pertain to their family’s background such as parent origins, race, relgious beliefs, customs, and practices. Gaining knowledge of an individual’s background will allow a health care professional to build plans that will be achievable. Achieving optimal health requires assessment and treating the individual human being. Reflecting on Jean Watson’s theory around caring, “Theory specifically involves the caring of a person’s mind, body, and soul” (Zerwekh & Claborn
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public awareness toward the promotion of health and disease prevention, known as Healthy People 2000 and 2010. It has been beneficial in changing the focus of health care from a reactive standpoint to a proactive one, which endorses national health and prevention of disease (Edelmam & Mandle, 2010). However delivery of health care objectives is not enough. Health providers must recognize and incorporate cultural group patterns, and variations within that culture to provide optimal care that promotes
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Heritage assessment Culture is defined as, “the behaviors and beliefs characteristics of a particular society, or ethnic group, which differentiate one society or ethnic group from another”. Heritage assessment is an important step which helps the health care professionals to be client-centered and cross-culturally competent. Cultural/heritage assessment will help health care providers to know the traditional health care methods used to protect, maintain, and restore health and give more personalized
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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 collect information about an individual’s origin, race, religion, faith and beliefs, family and community relationships, traditions and contacts with family.
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how deeply a given person identifies with a particular tradition”. (prenhall.com). This assessment of 29 questions based on family, social, cultural, religious and immigration history can be very helpful in identifying the individual’s health traditions and beliefs, which can promote a more culturally competent R.N. Cultural competency is vital for the nurse in designing a plan of care that takes into consideration the culture and traditions of the patient’s belief system to deliver care that meets
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Multicultural Assessment Norma Garcia Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Serina Madden February 25, 2015 Multicultural Assessment The author of this paper is a student at Grand Canyon University who is currently taking Family Centered Health Promotion. The topic discussed in class this week was, Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion. The corresponding assignment to this course was to perform a heritage assessment; three families of the community
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Evaluation of families, cultures and views on health Anniemae Stubbs Grand Canyon University Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion NURS 429 Professor Alma Celaya June 19, 2016 Heritage Assessment: Evaluation of families , cultures and views on health Cultural Heritage is a concept that is passed on from one generation to the next that depicts how people live, act, behave, or think. It can be a noticeable or vague manifestation. It includes various customs, traditions, practices, values
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Bureau, 2008). Before we investigate several cultural families, their needs as patients, traditions and health practices, we must consider what role culture plays in the nursing process. Culture remains to be a vague concept that is often not well understood or explored. Culture can be referred to as the way we do things around here, it is the norm for the particular group. The challenge for nurses regarding culture continues to be maintaining a sufficient knowledge base and comprehension of individualized
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