Gordon's 11 Functional Health Patterns

Question 1

Client’s perceived pattern of health and well-being and how health is managed

Answer 1

Health Perception and Health Management

Question 2

Pattern of food and fluid consumption relative to metabolic need and pattern; indicators of local nutrient supply

Answer 2

Nutritional-Metabolic

Question 3

Patterns of excretory function (bowel, bladder, and skin). Includes client’s perception of abnormal function.

Answer 3

Elimination

Question 4

Patterns of exercise, activity, leisure, and recreation.

Answer 4

Activity-Exercise

Question 5

Sensory-perceptual and cognitive patterns.

Answer 5

Cognitive-Perceptual

Question 6

Patters of sleep, rest, and relaxation.

Answer 6

Sleep-Rest

Question 7

Client’s self concept patter and perceptions of self.

Answer 7

Self-Perception/Self-Concept

Question 8

Client’s pattern of role engagements and relationships.

Answer 8

Role-Relationship

Question 9

Patterns of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with sexuality pattern; reproductive pattern.

Answer 9

Sexuality-Reproductive

Question 10

General coping pattern and effective of the pattern in terms of stress tolerance.

Answer 10

Coping/Stress Tolerance

Question 11

Patterns of values, beliefs (including spiritual), and goals that guide client’s choices or decision.

Answer 11

Vale-Belief

Question 12

Compliance with medication regime, use if health promotion activities such as regular exercise, annual check-ups.

Answer 12

Health Perception/ Health Management

Question 13

Condition of the skin, teeth, hair, nails, mucous membranes: height and weight.

Answer 13

Nutritional-Metabolic

Question 14

Frequency of bowel movements, pain on urination, appearance of urine and stool.

Answer 14

Elimination

Question 15

Exercise hobbies. May include cardiovascular and respiratory status, mobility, and ADL.

Answer 15

Activity-Exercise

Question 16

Vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, pain perception and management; cognitive functions such as language, memory, and decision making.

Answer 16

Cognitive-Perceptual

Question 17

Client’s perception of quality and quantity of sleep and energy, sleep aids, routines client uses.

Answer 17

Sleep-Rest

Question 18

Body comfort, body image, feeling state, attitudes about self, perception of abilities, objective data such as body posture, eye contact, and voice tone.

Answer 18

Self-Perception/Self Concept

Question 19

Perception of current major roles and responsibilities (eg. father, husband, sales man): satisfaction with family, work, or social relationships.

Answer 19

Role-Relationship

Question 20

Number and histories of pregnancy and childbirth; difficulties with sexual functioning; satisfaction with sexual relationship.

Answer 20

Sexuality-Reproductive

Question 21

Client’s usual manner of handling stress, available support systems, perceived ability to control or manage situations.

Answer 21

Coping/Stress Tolerance

Question 22

Religious affiliation, what client perceives as important in life, value-beliefs conflicts related to health, special religious practices.

Answer 22

Value-Belief