Cultural Diversity Heritage Assessment - 1709 Words

Cultural Diversity: Heritage Assessment Heritage is the customs, traditions, ethnicities, cultures, achievements, beliefs, etc., that are fragment and portion of the history of a community group or a nation (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). When talking about heritage, one is talking about who we are, what part of the world are we from and what is our history is all about. Everyone come from different culture and with traditions, customs and the heritage differs from cultures to culture, which is determined by religions, ethnics, and cultural background. As nurses, it is very essential and vital when collecting patient information along with theirs cultural background during nursing assessment. Heritage assessment tool is an important tool for†¦show more content†¦In this paper, three families were interviewed on several characteristics of their culture, customs and beliefs toward health which includes African, African American and Jamaican. Yoruba Culture The Akosiles family was interviewed, and they are natives of Ekiti State in Nigeria. The family just came to visit their family friend here in America. The Yoruba culture is one the strongest and toughest culture in Nigeria. Yorubas are family oriented, they cherished their family and respect every family’s opinions and have mutual relationship with each. This family believes in traditional religion, food and dance. It was learned that in Yoruba culture, traditional religion is very important, such as Ogun (God of Iron), and Sango, (God of Thunder). There is a specific time that is assigned to worship them and that is when people believes to ask for good health through the year and anyone that is sick will come to the shrine with some items to make sacrifice. The Akosiles family came from the family that worships God of iron, in Yoruba land in Nigeria. They believes in some herbs preparations for healing of different types of sickness, they believe in saying incantations to a leaves and placed it on any part of the body that needed restoration and healing and they also believes in using incantation to cast out demonic attack from a person. Pounded yam is their local and native food with