Functional Health Patterns

Introduction

• developed by Marjory Gordon.
• a method used by nurses in the nursing process to provide a comprehensive nursing assessment of the patient.
• Taxonomy II of NANDA Nursing Diagnosis classification is based on Gordon's functional health patterns.
• Gorden's functional health pattern includes 11 categories which is a systematic and standardized approach to data collection.

List of Funcrional Health Patterns

1. Health Perception – Health Management Pattern
   • describes client’s perceived pattern of health and well being and how health is managed.
2. Nutritional – Metabolic Pattern
   • describes pattern of food and fluid consumption relative to metabolic need and pattern indicators of local nutrient supply.
3. Elimination Pattern
   • describes pattern of excretory function (bowel, bladder, and s
4. Activity – Exercise Pattern
   • describes pattern of exercise, activity, leisure, and recreation.
5. Cognitive – Perceptual Pattern
   • describes sensory, perceptual, and cognitive pattern
6. Sleep – Rest Pattern
   • describes patterns of sleep, rest, and relaxation.
7. Self-perception – Self-concept Pattern
   • -describes self-concept and perceptions of self (body comfory, image, feeling state)
8. Role – Relationship Pattern
   • describes pattern of role engagements and relationships.
9. Sexuality – Reproductive Pattern
   • describes client’s pattern of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with sexuality pattern, describes reproductive patterns.
10. Coping – Stress Tolerance Pattern
    • describes general coping patterns and effectiveness of the pattern in terms of stress tolerance.
11. Value – Belief Pattern
    • - describes pattern of values and beliefs, including spiritual and /or goals that guide choices or decisions.

References

1.  Gordon, M. Nursing Diagnosis: Process and application, Third Edition. St. Louis: Mosby, 1994.