Reference no: EM133640672
Assignment:
Read the gordons and interview 1 family member using it.
GORDON'S FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
A. Health Perception and Health Management Patterns
The data collection on the client's perception of his/her health status, well-being and practices in maintaining health, the risk factors that may negatively or positively affect health and the person's family knowledge base and abilities related to health promotion and disease prevention.
Prior to Admission:
1. How do you perceive your health?
2. Are you satisfied with your usual health status?
3. Do you have yearly physical exam?
4. Do you seek healthcare only when ill?
5. What do you consider healthy about you?
6. How many times have you been admitted to the hospital? What are your previous illnesses that prompt you to seek health care?
7. Any beliefs, practices or traditional concepts of health and illness
8. If this person has allergies, what does s/he do to prevent problems?
9. Do you have any medical problems in the family?
10. Have there been any important illnesses or injuries in this person's life?
11. What safety practices do you follow?
12. What do you do to stay healthy? Do you think these things will make a difference to your health?
13. Personal hygiene practices: bathing, grooming, hand washing, brushing use of deodorant, wearing of slippers
14. Substance use: use of cigarette, alcohol drugs? Kind, amount, frequency? What are the reasons for using these? Are you aware of its effects to your health?
15. Environmental sanitation practices; water supply, toilet facilities, waste management, food preparation, presence of vectors and other health hazards
16. Have you had any accidents/injuries/falls in the past year
(For mothers) Did you undergone prenatal check-ups? IS the child's immunization complete?