Heritage Assessment Tool



Heritage Assessment Tool

Introduction

The Heritage Assessment tool is a frequently and dependable vehicle utilized for assessing health maintenance, protection and restoration of people belonging to diversified range of cultures and have distinctive traditions and beliefs. This approach is useful in meeting the needs and requirements of patients belonging to a vast variety of cultures and also helps in delivering the quality care. The primary goal of this assignment is to investigate the Jamaican, Arabic and Haitian cultures including tradition, beliefs, values etc. The goal is to determine variety of families and the writer's health values and traditions that is based upon cultural inheritance. The assessment and valuation of the aforementioned cultures describe the same and different factors in terms of tradition that shed light holistic finest health delivery. The assessment tool is comprised of questions regarding beliefs and traditions followed by individual from their childhood till adulthood. It is the duty and responsibility of nurses to apply the obtained information from this tool while providing health care services to customers and patients that are particularly very much sensitive to cultural factors and beliefs (Spector, 2000).

Discussion

In order to evaluate and assess the Arab American Culture, the writer has interviewed an Arab American family residing in America for past 20 years. Despite of living in America for such a long time, the family strictly follows its cultural trends, norms and values. It can be observed from their behavior in daily life and their posture or gesture. Women in the family cover their heads and male members of family keep a beard. They believe in keeping a blue bead in home to avoid the negative effects of evil eye, they recite their Holy Book regularly and pay five times prayer on time. They usually speak English as a foreign language in an Arabic accent while communicating with others such as foreign friends, hospitals, shops, offices etc and speak their native language with each other.

All the family together makes a final decision. They usually hide their illness and sickness because they believe it is shameful to get sick or share it with others. They are found to be repeating the same information again in case they don't understand it whenever communicating with others or even with hospital staff. They have their extended family in Arab countries that they visit regularly but currently living as a nuclear family in America. Children are raised in a strict environment as they are not allowed to do anything without seeking permission from their parents.

They consider eating good food that is nutrient as well and believe it is essential for recovering from any disease or weakness. They do not prefer having ice in drinks and perceive hot soups as an essential food item of their meal as it helps them from recovering. They do not eat restricted food ingredients in America at all so their preference of eating out is very limited and also prohibit from taking food in hospitals during tenure of ...