Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community

Assignment: Functional Health Patterns

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Week 3 Community Strategic Plan: Part A, Community Assessment For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community. Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community.Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community In your community assessment paper, include the following: Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1–2 paragraphs). Refer to Table 8-2: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (2–3 paragraphs). Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers (2–3 paragraphs). Plan ahead: Next week, as Part B of this assignment, you will select one (1) identified risk from this assessment to develop a community-focused strategic plan to address that health risk. It is recommended that you look ahead to next week’s assignment so that you can begin framing your chosen community health focus. Your paper should be 2–3 pages in length, not including the cover and reference pages. Use APA throughout. You must include 2–3 sources that are APA cited and referenced in your paper. (Sources may include community resources such as flyers, brochures, interviews, news stories, and local research data from credible sources.) Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded.Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community

Gordon’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]Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community

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