Description:
This is a benchmark assessment.
The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by CCNE and AACN using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, their specific care discipline, and their local communities.
The learning activity and corresponding assignment in this Topic requires students to perform a heritage assessment with families selected by the student from their local community.
Click on https://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/663/679611/box_6_1.pdf in order to access the “Heritage Assessment Tool.”
Interview three families from different cultures. One family can be your own. Compare the differences in health traditions between these cultures.
Assess three families using the Heritage Assessment Tool. In 1,000-1,500 words discuss the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment to evaluate the needs of families and develop plans for health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration.
Include the following:
1. Perform a heritage assessment on three families.
2. Complete the “Heritage Assessment Tool” and submit to: [email protected] – one assessment for each of the three families interviewed.
3. Identify common health traditions based on cultural heritage. Evaluate and discuss how the families subscribe to these traditions and practices. Address health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration as they relate to your assessment.
Prepare this assignment according the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Note: The greater the number of positive responses, the greater the person’s identification with a traditional heritage. The one exception to positive answers is the question about family name change. This question may be answered negatively.
1. Where was your mother born?
2. Where was your father born?
3. Where were your grandparents born?
(1) Your mother’s mother?
(2) Your mother’s father?
(3) Your father’s mother?
(4) Your father’s father?
4. How many brothers _____ and sisters _____ do you have?
5. What setting did you grow up in? Urban _____ Rural _____ Suburban _____
6. What country did your parents grow up in?
Father _____
Mother _____
7. How old were you when you came to the United States? _____
8. How old were your parents when they came to the United States? Mother _____ Father _____
9. When you were growing up, who lived with you? _____
10. Have you maintained contact with
a. Aunts, uncles, cousins? (1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
b. Brothers and sisters? (1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
c. Parents? (1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
d. Your own children? (1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
11. Did most of your aunts, uncles, cousins live near your home?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
12. Approximately how often did you visit your family members who lived outside your home?
(1) Daily _____ (2) Weekly _____ (3) Monthly _____ (4) Once a year or less _____ (5) Never _____
13. Was your original family name changed?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
14. What is your religious preference?
(1) Catholic _____ (2) Jewish _____ (3) Protestant _____ (4) Denomination (5) Other _____ (6) None _____
15. Is your spouse the same religion as you?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
16. Is your spouse the same ethnic background as you?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
17. What kind of school did you go to?
(1) Public _____ (2) Private _____ (3) Parochial _____
18. As an adult, do you live in a neighborhood where the neighbors are the same religion and ethnic background as yourself?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
19. Do you belong to a religious institution?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
20. Would you describe yourself as an active member?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
21. How often do you attend your religious institution?
(1) More than once a week _____ (2) Weekly _____ (3) Monthly _____ (4) Special holidays only _____ (5) Never _____
22. Do you practice your religion at home?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____ (If yes, please specify) (3) Praying _____ (4) Bible reading _____ (5) Diet _____ (6) Celebrating religious holidays _____
23. Do you prepare foods of your ethnic background?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
24. Do you participate in ethnic activities?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____ (If yes, please verify) (3) Singing _____ (4) Holiday celebrations _____ (5) Dancing _____ (6) Festivals _____ (7) Costumes _____ (8) Other _____
25. Are your friends from the same religious background as you?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
26. Are your friends from the same ethnic background as you?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
27. What is your native language? _____
28. Do you speak this language?
(1) Prefer _____ (2) Occasionally _____ (3) Rarely _____
29. Do you read your native language?
(1) Yes _____ (2) No _____
Heritage Assessment Tool: Source : Spector, R. E. (2000). CulturalCare: Guide to heritage assessment and health traditions (5th ed.). Pearson Education/PH College.