Case Assignment: Functional Health Patterns
Case Assignment: Functional Health Patterns
Case Assignment: Functional Health Patterns
Week 3 discussion Discussion 1 How should you use Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns to assess individual health? What health screening interventions do you regularly participate in? Discussion 2 What family characteristics may contribute to potential or actual dysfunctional health patterns?The Functional Health Pattern (FHP) model is a categorization of 11 areas that assist in diagnosing human responses to illness and identifying risk factors for dysfunctional health. The incorporation of this model as a content organizer in a beginning medical‐surgical course in a baccalaureate curriculum is presented as an effective method of familiarizing students with the application of the nursing process. This model permits the student nurse to identify FHPs (client strengths) and dysfunctional patterns (nursing diagnoses).
ordon’s functional health patterns is a method devised by to be used by in the nursing process to provide a more comprehensive of the patient.
The following areas are assessed through questions asked by the nurse and to provide an overview of the individual’s health status and health practices that are used to reach the current level of health or wellness.
- Health Perception and Management
- Nutritional metabolic
- Elimination-excretion patterns and problems need to be evaluated (constipation,incontinence,diarrhea
- Activity exercise-whether one is able to do daily activities normally without any problem, self care activities
- Sleep rest-do they have hypersomnia,insomnia, do they have normal sleeping patterns
- Cognitive-perceptual-assessment of neurological function is done to assess, check the person’s ability to comprehend information
- Self perception/self concept
- Role relationship
- Sexuality reproductive
- Coping-stress tolerance
- Value-Belief Pattern
