Heritage Assessment Tool: Evaluation of Different Cultures and Individual Views of Health

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

Evaluation of how family subscribes to these traditions and practices is offered in detail, while offering insight and/or reflection.It is essential for nurses to provide culturally sensitive care to each and every patient in order to establish repor and maintain a safe working relationship with each individual. To provide culturally sensitive care to a nurses patient’s he or she must first assess their own beliefs, values, and culture at large. The nurse can do this by using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This tool shows the nurse how important their heritage is to them and if they have adopted their ways of life from their family’s history and influence. This gives the nurse a starting point

Every individual has a cultural heritage. Each culture views the world differently. Culture is an inherited characteristic and includes knowledge, beliefs, customs, skills, likes and dislikes. The fundamental role of cultural heritage is uniting, respecting the diversities and brings people together to face the future by informing, perceiving and give importance to the understanding of the past (need a reference) Heritage assessment tool was introduced for collecting information about different cultures, nationalities and build cultural competencies among health care professionals. It is used to investigate

A heritage assessment in nursing is a vital tool to learning about a patient. By finding out about the patient’s family and friends we can learn about their support system. If we learn how close to a culture our patient is this will give us an idea of how true they hold their beliefs or if they have went mainstream with the American culture. Doing interviews with different cultures gives us a look into their personal beliefs and can help nurses to provide better care and teaching to these patients. Some patients we will learn were born in

The United States has become a multicultural country. Everywhere you look, you see a plethora of cultures that range from Hispanic and African to Asian and American Indian. The varied traditions and beliefs of a multicultural country impact how nurses implement patient-centered care. The best way to provide optimal care in nursing is to become better informed in how different cultures view health maintenance, protection, and restoration. The Heritage Assessment is a wonderful tool to obtain information that can be used

The Heritage Assessment Tool (HST) is used to “investigate a given patient’s or your own ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage…it can help determine 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

An individuals ethnicity and culture is an integral part of their life that influences their perceptions of both health and illness (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). Culture is the accumulated knowledge, values, personal and social behavior, customs, language, and religious beliefs of an ethnic group that are learned and practiced. With this being said, with the rapid rise of individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds, being aware of the perceptions of different cultures is essential in providing culturally competent care. The purpose of this paper is to explore the diverse cultural background of the patient involved in one of the four videos that were allotted to choose from and discuss their perception of health and illness. Furthermore, the overarching

This paper will assess and discuss the usefulness of applying the Heritage Assessment tool to evaluate three different families each one from different cultural backgrounds consisting of Greek, Italian, and Hispanic ethnicities. This paper will also compare similarities and differences related to health maintenance, health protection and health restoration and the cultural uniqueness of each individual interviewed.

Many people express faith in particular ways. However, many studies show patients of all faiths tend to use their perception on how their personal culture and ritual affect their health. Although many religions may have differing visions on providing care, one thing remains the same; people of faith will heal quicker. Every person, regardless of their traditions, religious, or cultural backgrounds, wishes to have their care met with respect and dignity. There are many of cultures with variety beliefs on healing. These beliefs may state certain way of practices that may require being focused on to remain a person’s total health. Healthcare professionals must be culturally sensitive to these differences needs by valuing diverse and adding in

This paper compares the philosophies of three diverse faiths, that of: Buddhism, Islam, and Christian Science, comparing them to Christianity. We will look at basic beliefs, spiritual perspectives on healing, beliefs about healthcare, and components of healing such as prayer, meditation, and rituals followed. We will also look at what is important to know when caring for a person with different beliefs and cultural views, so that we may treat them with respect, dignity and promote the healing process.

At the start of my junior year, I began a two-year long research process involving spirituality in medicine and biomedical ethics because it is a subfield of medicine that I hope to contribute to proving that it can be an asset rather than an obstacle to overcome.The immense diversity of the religions present in the United States and other first-world nations have caused controversy with treatments in medicine, and with biomedical ethics still in its infancy, a majority of medical schools still fail to provide instruction in dealing with patient spirituality. Traditionally, physicians have been trained to safeguard patient health, but the modern world has both made this simultaneously increasingly simple and difficult. There have been many

"The area of spirituality and health is developing as an academic field of inquiry, and this new perspective is beginning to be incorporated into training programs for medical doctors and health practitioners."

Self-efficacy and the value of health had lead the patients to better outcomes and less complications (Nugent, Carson, Zammitt, Smith, & Wallston, 2015). It was also observed by Gomersall, Madill and Summers that spirituality and self-management of T2DM had both positive and negative correlations (Gomersall et al., 2011). African American patients with T2DM who were Christians had two distinctively different views on their chronic illness; some saw the God as a supporter and others as a healer (Gomersall et al., 2011). Patients who viewed the God as a supporter were more motivated and able to produce positive results when others who viewed the God as a healer became passive and had negative outcomes (Gomersall et al., 2011). Observed individual’s spirituality was perceived similarly to the former. Being an active and sincere Buddhist for more than 20 years, she accepted her fate and her illness as a part of her journey. The observed individual believed that the illness also has been guiding her to live a purified life and have a clean body by exercising and eating healthy that contributed to positive outcomes of

In the Unites States of America there are currently 42.4 million immigrants making a permanent residence ("Migration Policy Institute | migrationpolicy.org," 2016). It is extremely important to become a culturally competent nurse to provide the best care and build solid relationships with all cultural backgrounds. In preparation for this paper I interviewed three people from different cultural backgrounds including Albania, New Zealand, and one like myself, who is Spaniard. I will discuss the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment tool when evaluating the needs of the whole person, compare the differences and offer insight in health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration among the cultures, and identify common health

Today when people move across continents with the help of technology their culture and heritage moves along with them. Almost each and every continent is populated with people from different nations who have diverse traditions and cultures. Thus knowledge of health traditions and culture plays a vital role in nursing. People from different cultures have a unique view on health and illness. Culture-specific care is a vital skill to the modern nurse, as the United States continues to consist of many immigrants who have become assimilated into one culture. I interviewed three families of different cultures: - Indian (my culture), Hispanic and Chinese. Let us see the differences in health traditions between these cultures.