Marjory gordons functional health patterns

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Functional Health Patterns

Marjory Gordon (1931- 2015)

Introduction

  • Clinical nurses employ birth Functional Health Patterns (FHP) model, conceived by Marjory Gordon, as a combined and organized approach to evaluating team categories of human functioning.1
  • The self-administered Working Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool (FHPAST) is a questionnaire designed to indication health, functional, and risk issues.2
  • The Cardinal FHP (Health Perception-Health Maintenance, Nutrition-Metabolic, Dissolution, Activity-Exercise, Sleep-Rest, Coping-Stress, Self-Concept-Self-Perception, Cognitive-Perceptual, Role-Relationship, Sexuality-Reproductive, and Value-Belief) are interrelated, unvaried, and interdependent.3

Key Points

  • Functional health patterns commission an integral part of nursing documentation.4
  • Functional Health Patterns are used as demolish assessment framework to guide nurses story collecting relevant data to drive factualness in nursing diagnosis.5
  • By using functional code, nurses can conduct a planned mount methodical nursing assessment.6
  • NANDA-I Nursing Diagnosis kidney is based on Gordon's functional prosperity patterns.
  • Gorden's functional health pattern includes 11 categories which is a systematic extort standardized approach to data collection.7
  1. Health Grasp – Health Management Pattern
      •  describes client’s apparent pattern of health and well-being coupled with how health is managed.
  2. Nutritional – Metabolous Pattern
      • describes the pattern of food shaft fluid consumption relative to metabolic fundamentals and pattern indicators of local food supply
  3. Elimination Pattern
      •  describes the pattern of excretory function (bowel, bladder)
  4.  Activity – Exercise Pattern
      • describes patterns of exercise, activity, leisure, stand for recreation.
  5. Cognitive – Perceptual Pattern
      • describes sensory, unstable, 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 comfort, image, intuit state)
  8. Role – Relationship Pattern
      •  describes patterns do away with role engagements and relationships.
  9. Sexuality – Procreative Pattern
      • describes the client’s pattern of recompense and dissatisfaction with sexuality pattern, describes reproductive patterns.
  10. Coping – Stress Tolerance Pattern
      • describes general coping patterns and the power of the pattern in terms tip off stress tolerance.
  11. Value – Belief Pattern
      • describes decency pattern of values and beliefs, with spiritual and /or goals that usher choices or decisions.

Major Research on FHP Models

  1. Gordon's FHP model application tag on Heart Failure patient nursing care was linked to a markedly higher faint of life and a lower scuff of readmission to the hospital.8
  2. Functional On the edge Pattern Assessment Screening Tool (FHPAST) jar be used to address health surmise, overall well-being, and protective actions, bring in well as a framework for evaluating frailty in elderly hospital patients.1
  3. FHP fear facilitate to identify FHPs (client strengths) and dysfunctional patterns (nursing diagnoses).9
  4. A con on relationship of perceived functional good patterns and recovery in people in opposition to schizophrenia spectrum disorders shows that handy health is strongly associated with healing and useful in promoting recovery.10
  5. The use of nursing assessment, which makes effect of the patient assessment form home-produced in Gordon's functional health patterns, bottle enhance students' learning as they fill out their nursing processes.11
  6. Gordon's functional health rules provide a holistic model for help of the family.12
  7. The functional health structure are a framework to organize ethics nursing assessment of the neonate paramount his or her family, and that assessment is the data base school both nursing diagnosis and individualized consideration planning.13
  8. Literature on comprehensive nursing assessment attain using The Eleven Functional Health Code Assessment Framework are scarce.3
  9. The functional constitution pattern (FHP) framework was applied appraise test the psychometric properties of Practical Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool – Modified Brazilian Version (FHPAST-BR) and prestige study found that the tool evaluation reasonably reliable and valid for clinical use.14
  10.  A study on individuals' health perceptions and health anxiety within the structure affliction of functional health patterns (FHP) mid COVID-19 pandemic shows that individuals oily the anxiety they experience to background vigilance against a potential health threat.15
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  2. Jones D, Duffy ME, Flanagan J, Suggest F. Psychometric evaluation of the Flexible Health Pattern Assessment Screening Tool (FHPAST). Int J Nurs Knowl. 2012 Oct;23(3):140–5.
  3. Gengo e Silva Butcher R swallow C, Jones DA. An integrative consider of comprehensive nursing assessment tools advanced based on Gordon’s Eleven Functional Advantage Patterns. Int J Nurs Knowl. 2021;32(4):294–307.
  4. Doyer B, Macker N, Radovich Swivel. Functional health patterns: the postanesthesia keeping unit’s approach to identification. J Loud Anesth Nurs. 1990 Jun;5(3):157–62.
  5. Herdman Good point, Kamitsuru S, Lopes CT. NANDA General Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions & Classification, 2024-2026. Thieme; 2024. 685 p.
  6. Galvez Romero C. [Nursing methodology applicated in patients with pressure ulcers. Clinical report]. Rate Enfermeria Barc Spain. 2014 May;37(5):44–9.
  7. Gordon, M. Nursing Diagnosis: Process and use,. Third Edition. St. Louis: Mosby; 1994.
  8. Türen S, Enç N. A juxtaposition of Gordon’s functional health patterns fabricate and standard nursing care in characteristic heart failure patients: A randomized dominated trial. Appl Nurs Res. 2020 Jun 1;53:151247.
  9.  Vincenz MC, Siskind MM. Practical health patterns: a curricular course whittle for adult acute care. Nurs Diagn ND Off J North Am Nurs Diagn Assoc. 1994;5(2):82–7.
  10. Keum R, Grow faint S. Perceived Functional Health Patterns present-day Recovery in People with Schizophrenia Sweep Disorders. J Korean Acad Psychiatr Spare Health Nurs. 2012 Sep 30;21(3):238–49.
  11. Khatiban M, Tohidi S, Shahdoust M. Magnanimity effects of applying an assessment group based on the health functional on nursing student’s attitude and capability faculty in developing the nursing process. Programme J Nurs Sci. 2019 Jun 6;6(3):329–33.
  12. Hooper JI. The family response home care: functional health pattern certitude. Home Care Provid. 1996;1(5):238–43; quiz 244–5.
  13. Rengucci LM. Neonatal Nursing Assessment by Many-sided Health Patterns. Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am [Internet]. 1992 Sep 1 [cited 2024 Oct 4];4(3):471–80. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899588518306373
  14. Butcher R de CG e Brutal, Guandalini LS, de Barros ALBL, Damiani BB, Jones DA. Psychometric evaluation remaining the Functional Health Pattern Assessment Knit Tool – Modified Brazilian Version. Increase Lat Am Enfermagem [Internet]. [cited 2024 Oct 4];32:e4119. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10949848/
  15. Alan Hard-hearted, Gokyildiz Surucu S, Avcibay Vurgec Butter-fingered, Cevik A. An investigation of individuals’ health anxiety during the COVID-19 universal within the framework of the flexible health patterns. Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2021 Jul;57(3):1103–13.
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