Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
Advantages
Guides collection of information on client ,client’s family and community
As a format for organizing assessment data and as a corresponding structure for
grouping and leading directly to nursing diagnosis
Encompasses a holistic approach and Incorporates the concepts of client –
environment interaction
FHP can be used as;
a system for organizing clinical knowledge-Courses or curricula using these patterns
have been organized in a number of educational programmes.
a system for organizing clinical literature and as topics for clinical research on health
patterns.
Family assessment
History & Examination
Community assessment
History & examination
Sample NANDA-I nursing diagnosis
Health Maintenance, Ineffective
Infection, Risk for
Injury, Risk for
Risk for injury, Suffocation
Risk for injury, Poisoning
Management of Therapeutic Regimen (Individual, Family, Community), Ineffective
Management of Therapeutic Regimen, Readiness for Enhanced
Surgical Recovery, Delayed
Examination
Skin
Bony prominences
Oral mucous membranes
Teeth
Actual weight and height
Anthropometric measurements
Temperature
Parenteral /enteric feeding modes
Examination
MSE
Hearing tests
Tests of vision
Reading tests
Language spoken
Cognitive-perceptual Patterns NANDA Nursing Diagnoses-examples
Acute Confusion
Decreased Intracranial Adaptive Capacity
Impaired Verbal Communication
Acute Pain
Unilateral Neglect
Risk for Peripheral Neurovascular Dysfunction
Ineffective Protection
Disturbed Sensory Perception
Disturbed Thought Processes
Decisional Conflict
Individual assessment
History
Anybigchangesintheclient’slifeinthelastyearandfollowingpreviouscrisis
The most helpful person in times of stress &Confidants
Use of stress-relieving drugs
Ways of handling stressful issues and their effectiveness
Sampl e NANDA nursing Diagnosis
Adjustment, Impaired
Coping, Readiness for Enhanced
Family Coping, Compromised and Disabled
Individual Coping, Ineffective
Coping, Defensive
Denial, Ineffective