Gordon's 11 Functional Health Patterns - Nursing Care Plan for Dermatitis
1. Health Perception-Health Function
2. Nutritional Metabolic Pattern
3. Elimination Pattern
4. Exercise Activity Pattern
11. Value belief system
1. Health Perception-Health Function
- A history of previous infection.
- Previous treatment failed.
- History of taking certain drugs, eg., Vitamins; herbs.
- Are there regular consultation to the doctor.
- Personal hygiene is lacking.
- Unhealthy environment, living overcrowding.
2. Nutritional Metabolic Pattern
- Daily diet: the number of meals, meal times, how many times a day to eat.
- Habit of eating certain foods: oily, spicy.
- Preferred food types.
- Decreased appetite.
- Vomiting.
- Weight loss.
- Poor skin turgor, dry, scaly, cracked, bump.
- Changes in skin color, there are patches, itching, burning or stinging.
3. Elimination Pattern
- Frequent sweating.
- Ask urination and bowel patterns.
4. Exercise Activity Pattern
- Fulfillment disrupted everyday.
- General weakness, malaise.
- Tolerance to low activity.
- Easy to sweat when doing light activity
- Changes in breathing patterns while doing the activity.
- Trouble sleeping at night because of stress.
- Nightmare.
- Changes in concentration and memory.
- Knowledge of the disease.
- Feeling insecure or inferior.
- Feelings of isolation.
- Living alone or married.
- Frequency of interaction is reduced.
- Changes in physical capacity to carry out the role.
- Interference with the biological needs a partner.
- The use of drugs that affect hormones.
- Emotionally unstable.
- Anxiety, fear of illness.
- Disorientation, restlessness.
11. Value belief system
- Changes in the client's self in worship.
- Religion.