GORDON’S FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERN
Name of Examiner:
Name of Examinee: Patient X
FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERN
1. Health-perception-health  My client perceive herself as healthy.
management pattern
2. Nutritional-metabolic pattern
3. Elimination pattern
Year level: II
Date Performed:
BEFORE PREGNANCY
 She was immunized and vaccinated.
 Practices healthy lifestyle and depends on fruits and
vegetables
 Rarely visits a doctor to have a check-ups, as
verbalized.
 Uses herbal medicine such as mayana, lagundi and
kalabo.
 When sick, goes to the “manghihilot”.
 Doesn’t have any maintenance medication.
 Eats more of fruits like banana, papaya, and
manggo.
 Eats more of vegetables like squash, ampalaya,
cabbage and eggplant.
 Eats her meals 3x a day with snack in between.
Breakfast (3 cups rice, egg, dried fish, and with
leafy vegetables)
Lunch (1-2 cups of rice, adobong manok)
Dinner (2 cup rice, tinolang isda)
Snacks (Bread and juice)
 Can drink water up to 4-5 glasses a day.
 Doesn’t take any food supplements.
 She has no special diet and no dietary restrictions.
 She is allergic to seafoods like crabs, lobster, squid
and shells.
 Defecates 3 times a day.
 She has no difficulties in moving bowels.
 There is no burning sensation/pain felt during
urination and voiding.
DURING PREGNANCY
 My client perceive herself as not healthy.
 She feels generally unwell and has had fever for the
last 48 hours.
 Conscious and coherent about her condition.
 Shows interest to recover easily and fast.
 She initially thought she had gastroenteritis as she
had reduced appetite, abdominal pain, vomiting and
loose stools.
 Eats her meals 3x a day with snack in between.
Breakfast (1 cup rice, hotdog, dried pork, with leafy
vegetables)
Lunch (1/2 cups of rice, tinolang isda)
Dinner (1/2 cup rice, adobong manok)
Snacks (Bread and juice)
 She can drink water up to 2-3 glasses a day.
 She is allergic to seafoods like crabs, lobster, squid
and shells.
 Sometimes she had trouble in a bowel movement
 She vomits after eating as verbalized.
 Noticed changes in her bowel movement.
 The client stool is type 7 from the Bristol Stool Chart

4. Activity-exercise pattern
5. Sleep-rest pattern
6. Cognitive-perceptional pattern
 She usually moves her bowel every morning.
 The client stool is type 4 from the Bristol Stool  She urinates 3-4 times a day.
Chart and is light brown in color.
 She urinates 3-4 times a day.
 The urine color is light yellow.
 She takes a walk every morning to her  Limited range of motion to thoracic and lumbar
neighborhood as her exercise.
 She does household chores.
 She enjoys watching TV, singing and sleep during
leisure time.
Bathing – 1
Dressing- 1
Toileting – 1
Transferring- 1
Continence – 1
Feeding - 1
 She usually sleeps at 11 pm and wakes up at 8 am.  She usually sleeps at 10 pm and wakes up at 9 am.
 She experienced nightmare sometimes.
 She doesn’t have any difficulty in sleeping.
 Does not take her afternoon nap.
 She uses 2 pillows.
 She doesn’t take any medication to help her sleep.
 She spends most of her time watching tv shows.
 She pray, sleep, listening to music to help her
relax.
 She can speak and understood Cebuano, Tagalog
and English.
 Oriented to people, time and place.
 Responds to stimuli verbally and physically.
 No sensory deficits.
 She usually read books to enhance her memory.
 She usually runs to her mom when she has
difficulty in decision making.
and is light brown in color.
 She doesn’t notice any tenderness or discomfort
upon urinating.
 The urine is concentrated which is darker yellow in
color and the odor is stronger than normal.
regions.
 She just stays at her bed.
Bathing – 0
Dressing – 0
Toileting – 0
Transferring – 0
Continence – 0
Feeding - 0
 She experienced nightmare sometimes.
 Difficulties in going to sleep because of her condition.
 Distracted and sleep is interrupted.
 She uses 2 pillows.
 She can speak and understood Cebuana, Tagalog and
English.
 She considered herself as forgetful.
 She’s able to make decision by herself.
 She has no problem in speaking and talking.
 She can decide for herself, ask help to her family if
there is any difficulties.
7. Self-perception-self-concept  Manages to practice healthy lifestyle so as not to
pattern
8. Role-relationship pattern
9. Sexually-reproductive pattern
10. Coping-stress tolerance pattern
11. Value-belief pattern
 She believed that check-ups will be helpful to assist
seek medical assistance. her.
 She perceived herself as a good person.  Choose to reward herself in everything she do, by
 When she achieved task, she gave herself a reward. eating and sleeping.
 The most devoted in doing household chores.  She expresses worry about her condition and concern
 She feel loved when she’s with her siblings for his family.
 Loves her family so much.  States the difficulty in dealing with her condition.
 She cannot perform the usual things and tasks
assigned.
 She is more focusing on herself.
 She had her first menstruation when she was 15  This time she’s not having her menstruation.
years old.  Dress according to gender.
 Her menstruation lasts for 6 days.  She is sexually active.
 She does not usually experience premenstrual  She is attracted to men only.
syndrome.
 Dress according to gender.
 She is attracted to men only.
 She is sexually active and does not have any family
planning method.
 Takes a nap and rests when tired.  When in pain, she just talk to her mother and change
 She directly talk to god when he encountered her position.
problems.  She directly talk to god when he encountered
problems.
 She value her life the most.  She value her life the most.
 She always show importance to the one she valued  She always show importance to the one she valued
the most by showing her love, understanding and the most by showing her love, understanding and
patience. patience.
 The family was a Roman Catholic, attends sunday  Have strong faith in God.
masses and prays at night as verbalized.  The family was a Roman Catholic, attends Sunday
masses amd prays at night as verbalized.