Cultural Self-Assessment Assignment (200 points)

For this assignment, you will perform a cultural assessment of yourself.  Your cultural self-assessment should include:

• Worldview
  • Brief, Simple
  • How do you see your place in the world?
• Ethnohistory
  • What makes you a culturally unique individual?
  • Family and Social History
  • Follow ancestry back as far as you can, but be brief, this is not a family tree
• Giger and Davidhizars 6 Cultural Phenomena:
  • Communication
  • Space
  • Social Organization
  • Time
  • Environmental Control
  • Biological Variations.
• Professional and Generic Care Beliefs and Practices
  • What does it mean to be in good health?
  • Do you use home remedies, folk medicine?
  • Any foods that are taboo?
• Generic and Specific Nursing Care Factors
  • How would you like to be treated by nurses?
  • What does it mean to you to be in good health?
  • What would be stressful to you about hospitalization, how could this be improved?
  • What is good nursing care?

Cultural assessment should be typed, double-spaced and 12 font.  This assignment is in narrative form.  Please organize each section using the headings provided above.  Total length should be a minimum of 3 pages, not including the title page or reference page.

Grading Rubric

Body organization-0-100 points

Body fluency-0-50 points

Body mechanics-0-30 points

Appearance-0-20 points