Heritage Assessment Tool Cultural beliefs and values are as unique and special as each individual. Patients are as diverse as the conditions they present with. Nurses need to have awareness not only of their own beliefs and values but of those they care for to provide culturally competent care. “Cultural care is a comprehensive model that includes the assessment of a client's cultural needs, beliefs, and health care practices” (GCU Lecture Notes [GCU], 2013, para. 4).
Healthcare is an important area where the cultural practices of an individual have got lot of influence. Therefore it is important for nurses as healthcare providers to know how to assess a person’s heritage in order to build up a healthy client- provider relationship and provide holistic care. Heritage and ethnicity are in a way inter-related as ethnic groups have a common or similar heritage. Different cultures or ethnicities have different life values about spirituality, relationships, wellbeing or illness and life and death etc. The use of heritage assessment tools helps one to understand the values and
Running head: CULTURAL SENSITIVITY 1 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication with the Amish Kathy U. Walker Grand Canyon University: NUR 502 May 8, 2013 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication With the Amish It is a well-known fact that disparities in healthcare exist among minority groups. The nursing profession, in an effort to deliver more appropriate and individualized patient care, is continually gathering data that can influence the patient’s experience. One very important arena is that of culture. Culture can be a determining factor in the care delivered, and therefore should be included in the approach to maintaining and restoring health (Barker, 2009). One such minority culture is that of the Amish.
HERITAGE PAPER HERITAGE PAPER Stephann Bertrand NRS 429V Family Health Promotion July 22nd, 20012 People’s health is influenced by culture and beliefs (Eldeman, & Mandle, 2010). Culture is the manner people live which shapes their health. Heritage denotes something immaterial, a custom that is passed from one generation to another such as routine used to guard health, sustain health, and re-establish health. In order to be familiar with one’s personal beliefs and health customs, heritage assessment is utilized. However, in dealing with people, ethnicity plays an imperative function (Winkelman, 2001).
The NAON recommended that patients and their families should be provided with education about pin site care before discharge and that this should be supported by the provision of written instructions (Holmes ei a/2005). Information should be available in written, oral and visual formats and should be consistent (Lee-Smith et al 2001 ). In terms of risk, if it is considered that the patient and/or carer is not able to achieve the required competency to care for the pin site, then healthcare professionals with particular responsibility for pin site care should liaise with community nurses to maintain consistency and provide support (Lee-Smith et al 2001 ). Nursing accountability Medical staff often indicate their preference for carrying out pin site care. Healthcare professionals may include the pin site care regimen in the patient's notes.
In health promotion, it’s the duty of a nurse to be culturally competent, in order to make the best decision to provide quality patient’s care, even though the nurses’ cultural belief might be different. Heritage assessment will aid the nurse to identify and understand a patient’s cultural back ground and how it influences the patient’s health. In this paper, Hispanic, Philippines and African cultures were assessed. Starting with the writer, the writer is from Nigeria in West Africa, she hails from the eastern part of Nigeria of the Igbo tribe and speaks Igbo language. The writer comes from a
Dalziell also suggested that individual nurses need to be proactive by interviewing patients about their families and then implementing changes in their practice to include their family in care. This purpose of this paper is to discuss Wright and Leahey’s (2009) 15 minute family interview through providing an example of a family assessment that took place on a mother baby unit. This paper will also include nursing diagnoses that pertain to the family and will critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the interview session. Application of Wright and Leahey’s 15 Minute Family Interview Wright and Leahey (2009) suggest that family nursing can be effectively and meaningfully practiced in 15 minutes or less, and created an interview process that include the following 5 key ingredients: Therapeutic conversation, Manners, Genograms & Ecomaps, Therapeutic questions and Commending family strengths. Wright and Leahey (2009) state that “all conversations between nurses and families, regardless of time, have the potential for healing through the very act of
Family Health Assessment Vann Joyner Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V May 9, 2015 Family Health Assessment One of the factors in planning care and health promotion for a patient is overall family support system . When a patient is ill it not only affects them but their family members as well. One tool used by a nurse to help collect family data is the family health assessment. Family health assessment aims at using a holistic approach to ensure the health of individuals, communities and families to ensure that care remains client centered. It focuses on ensuring that families acknowledge their health needs and address them by planning proper intervention strategies.
Work Based Learning Project NURB 275. The following piece of work adheres to the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008) Code of Conduct, with either fictitious names being used or omitted to protect confidentiality. Abstract This report will discuss the implementation of a change related to a cardiovascular ward. The change comes in the form of an information leaflet to raise awareness to the patient and their family about the importance of maintaining a good well balanced nutritional intake and how this affects wound healing. There is evidence to suggest that giving clients written information helps to reduce anxiety and therefore improve healing, give empowerment and increase satisfaction (Little et al, 2004)).
in psychiatric and mental health nursing from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1965 TRANSCULTURAL NURSING/ CULTURAL CARE DIVERSITY AND UNIVERSALITY THEORY What is transcultural nursing? A field of study and practice that shows the importance of culture in providing health care. The upper half of the circle represents a part of the whole socio-cultural structure and world view factors. These factors influence the care, patterns and expressions towards health and well-being of an individual, families, groups and institutions through language and environment. The same factors also influence folk and professional nursing.