NUR MISC - Week 8 Pre-work.

NUR MISC - Week 8 Pre-work/NUR MISC - Week 8 Pre-work. 1. Use cultural assessment to identify significant values, beliefs and practices of patients who are experiencing death, grief and loss. To be able to properly care for a patient, a nurse needs to be able to meet their cultural needs. To be able to do that, a cultural assessment can be performed to identify their cultural needs. The cultural assessment includes the following: - To what causes does the patient attribute illness and disease? o Ex. Divine wrath, hot/cold imbalance, yin/yang, punishment for moral transgressions, hex, soul loss, pathogenic organism - What is the patient’s cultural beliefs about the ideal body size and shape? What is the patient’s self-image compared to the ideal? - What name does the patient give to their health condition? - What does the patient believe promotes health?