Case Assignment: Functional Health Patterns

Case Assignment: Functional Health Patterns

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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 Marjory Gordon to be used by nurses in the nursing process to provide a more comprehensive nursing assessmentof the patient.

The following areas are assessed through questions asked by the nurse and medical examinations 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.[1][2]

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