Homework: Cultural Self-Assessment
For this homework you will perform a cultural assessment of yourself. Your cultural self-assessment should include:
1) Worldview
a) Brief, Simple
b) How do you see your place in the world?
2) Ethnohistory
a) What makes you a "culturally unique individual?"
b) Family and Social History
c) Follow ancestry back as far as you can, but be brief, this is not a family tree
3) Giger and Davidhizar's 6 Cultural Phenomena:
a) Communication
b) Space
c) Social Organization
d) Time
e) Environmental Control
f) Biological Variations.
4) Professional and Generic Care Beliefs and Practices
a) What does it mean to be in good health?
b) Do you use home remedies, folk medicine?
c) Any foods that are taboo?
5) Generic and Specific Nursing Care Factors
a) How would you like to be treated by nurses?
b) What does it mean to you to be "in good health"?
c) What would be stressful to you about hospitalization, how could this be improved?
d) What is good nursing care?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.