Heritage Assessment for Evaluating the Needs of Whole Person

Heritage Assessment for Evaluating the Needs of Whole Person

Introduction

This paper will discuss the evaluation of heritage assessment tool. The paper will start will start with the discussion of the usefulness of the tool. The tool will be used in the evaluation of a person's needs as a whole. The will include interviews with three different families. The interviews with families will discuss the opinions of them about health protection, health maintenance, and health restoration. This paper will also discuss the writer's health traditions. The paper will also include the way in which the three families will be interviewed and how much importance they put on their health traditions.

Discussion

Heritage refers to the degree to which an individual reflects his or her tribal culture through lifestyle. The nursing assessment has many parts. Heritage assessment is one of them. This assessment allows the nurse to gather more information about the culture of patients. The nurses can gather information about beliefs and values about health. Heritage involves the beliefs of individual, their families, and religious and ethnic community. A heritage assessment helps a nurse to know lots of things about a patient (Spector, 2004). A nurse can have the information mentioned in the Heritage Assessment Tool. This assessment tool is given in the appendix.

Usefulness of Heritage Assessment

The usefulness of the assessment mentioned above has many dimensions. This assessment is useful in many ways. This assessment will provide positive outcomes and desired satisfaction level to patient. This will lead to effective care for the patient. The assessment will also provide respectful care. When a patient will provide all the details about his or her preferences and values, he will get treatment in a respectful way. This assessment will also achieve linguistic and cultural competence. The assessment helps nurses to have a look at multidisciplinary policies, attitudes, and behaviors. This enables the nurses to perform their duties in a cross-cultural way and provide the best quality treatment. For example, the hospital can provide an interpreter to a patient if he or she does not speak English (Spector, 2004).

An assessment of a whole person can create cultural sensitivity among the nurses. The nurses have the duty of caregivers. They will develop an attitude of constructive mindset for culturally diversified population. This assessment will also lead the nurses to provide healthcare services which are culturally appropriate. The Heritage assessment tool provides full background of the patient and nurses can use that information to provide appropriate services. The last, but not the least, advantage of using this assessment is that the nurses can understand the situation of patients. This identifies the cultural differences and similarities, social factors, and stress factors of patients (Jarvis, 2011).

Personal Assessment

I have filled the heritage assessment tool. This part will present my personal assessment by using this tool. I was born in Nigeria. I spent my childhood over there. I also attended a religious school at the elementary level. Then I migrated to United States as an ...