Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns

Gordon's Functional Health Patterns in Nursing

• Purpose of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns: Provides a standardized framework for assessing a patient's overall health by exploring 11 functional health patterns.
• Assessment Progression: Moving from general to specific allows nurses to gain a comprehensive understanding of the patient's health status.
• Relationship between Functional Health Patterns and Nursing Diagnoses: Functional health patterns help identify nursing diagnoses, providing a roadmap for developing individualized care plans.
• Importance of Understanding All 11 Patterns: Understanding all patterns allows nurses to identify potential health problems, evaluate the patient's holistic well-being, and plan comprehensive care.
• Integration of Patient and Environment: "Interaction with the environment" is the term used to describe the connection between a patient's health and their surroundings.
• Planning Nursing Care: Functional health patterns facilitate the development of individualized nursing care plans based on specific patient needs.
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Evaluates nutritional intake, metabolic processes, and the patient's weight management practices.
• Health Perception-Health Management Pattern: Assesses the patient's perception of their health status and their practices for managing their health.
• Sleep-Rest Pattern: Evaluates the patient's sleep patterns, rest habits, and sleep quality.
• Elimination Pattern: Focuses on the patient's patterns of bowel and bladder function.
• Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern: Assesses the patient's mental state, cognitive abilities, and sensory perception.
• Health Management Practices: In the Health Perception-Health Management Pattern, assessment includes the patient's adherence to prescribed medications, healthcare services utilization, and self-care practices.