Heritage Assessment of the Three Culturally Diverse Families
Laly C. Kurian
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V (NRS-429V-OL192)
10/05/2015
Heritage Assessment of the Three Culturally Diverse Families
Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT), is a set of questions that can be used to understand a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage. Heritage assessment, helps the health practitioners to understand a patient’s HEALTH traditions. (CULTURALCARE Guide, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT), and its usefulness to determine how deeply a given person identifies with a particular tradition. The author of this paper has used the HAT, to compare health traditions among three culturally different families, and how they ascribe …show more content…
26). Health care providers need to become responsive to the cultural values of different peoples and how these could augment effective and humanistic care delivery (In Edelman, In Mandle, & In Kudzma, 2014, p. 26). This is where the HAT, could be very effective in assessing patient’s cultural needs, beliefs, and health care practices towards health maintenance, protection, and restoration for a nurse to take a holistic approach towards providing care and education to the patient. The heritage assessment helps the patients to get effective and respectful care. By knowing the patient’s preferences and values, the nurse can optimize the care plan to accommodate patient’s needs, by considering 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,
Laly C. Kurian
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V (NRS-429V-OL192)
10/05/2015
Heritage Assessment of the Three Culturally Diverse Families
Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT), is a set of questions that can be used to understand a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage. Heritage assessment, helps the health practitioners to understand a patient’s HEALTH traditions. (CULTURALCARE Guide, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT), and its usefulness to determine how deeply a given person identifies with a particular tradition. The author of this paper has used the HAT, to compare health traditions among three culturally different families, and how they ascribe …show more content…
26). Health care providers need to become responsive to the cultural values of different peoples and how these could augment effective and humanistic care delivery (In Edelman, In Mandle, & In Kudzma, 2014, p. 26). This is where the HAT, could be very effective in assessing patient’s cultural needs, beliefs, and health care practices towards health maintenance, protection, and restoration for a nurse to take a holistic approach towards providing care and education to the patient. The heritage assessment helps the patients to get effective and respectful care. By knowing the patient’s preferences and values, the nurse can optimize the care plan to accommodate patient’s needs, by considering 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,