Cultural assessment is assessing a patient based on their
culture inherited from birth or from the environment where they
grew up, etc., Some of the areas the student nurse has to consider
while doing a cultural assessment are
- The beliefs of the patient .The values of the patient because
it is different in each culture .The practice of the culture
- The ethnic background of the patient helps to assess from where
the patient belongs to and what community they are and
practice
- The religious believes because certain patient adheres to the
norms of the religion to accept or refuse a treatment
- Their health practice if they fall sick. It can be the home
remedies too
- The choucevof food they intake because food plates a jet rile
in recovering .Certain culture sticks to the herbs and neuropathy
for simple home remedies when they fall sick and wants to keep them
healthy
- The family involvement or pattern. Certain cultures allows
discussion of medical treatment of patient with the elder of the
family to take decision .
- The preference of food. Every culture has unique food choice
and selected food variety .This has to be assessed and implemented
accordingly for better results .
- Eating pattern also varies accordingly and generally decides
the health portion of a diet to meet all nutritional requirements
of a day.