Health Assessment

Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns

Functional Before Admission During Admission

Health Patterns

The patient believes that being He follows the doctor’s order to

1. Health
healthy is life. He tries his best help in his healing phase in the
Perception and
to keep his well-being. hospital and to go home right away
Health
As a child he completed all his because he finds comfort in his
maintenance
vaccines. home.
He also completed 2 doses of
COVID vaccine last year and is
planning to have a booster this
year.

“Wala man koy arte sa pagkaon, After the surgery he undergone

2. Nutritional -
mo kaon ra ko kung unsay naa soft diet (lugaw) for 12 hours as
Metabolic
sa amo” patient stated. per doctor’s order. After 12 hours
He also has an allergy on crabs, he was put on a regular diet.
that’s why he avoids it.
Even though eating “dinuguan”
is prohibited in his religion, he
still enjoys eating it.

He usually defecates every Since admission he also was not

3. Elimination
morning before taking a bath,
but 5 days prior to admission he
wasn’t able to defecate.
He usually urinates 6 to 8 times
in a day.
able to defecate although he farted
hours after the surgery.
Before the operation his urine color
was dark orange, during the
surgery the color was orange, and
after the operation the color of the
urine was yellow orange.

He usually does basketball as a He stated that when he tries deep

4. Activity and
form of recreational activity and
Exercises
exercise, but when the
pandemic came he became less
active in basketball.
He has no breathing problem.
breathing, the incision hurts but in
breathing normally, he does not
feel any pain.
The doctor also ordered for him to
ambulate, thus he tries walking
from time to time in the ward. He
also doesn’t feel pain while
walking.

Before the patient was admitted He can easily understand the

5. Cognition
to the hospital facility, the explanation of the doctor about his
and perception
patient manifested some signs
 and symptoms of abdominal
pain. The patient stated that 5
days prior to admission he
disregarded the signs and
symptoms because he taught it
was just a common abdominal
pain and the only remedy that
he taught that can alleviate the
pain was using therapeutic oils.
1 day prior to admission the
patient decided to seek medical
care because he has a feeling
that this might be an
appendicitis due to researches
that he had done and that his
father undergone the same
illness a year ago.
The patient stated that he had a
6. Sleep and
hard time sleeping because of
Rest
the pain that he felt in his lower
right abdomen. He wakes up
every 2 hours from slumber
because of the pain.
7. Self- He said that “okay raman ko”
perception and pertaining his looks and wits. He
self-concept views himself as “gwapo” and he
takes good care of himself, his
hygiene and exercise.
The patient stated that everyone
8. Roles and
in his family is supportive of
Relationship
what they do in life.
Their mother is the one who
usually looks after the person
who gets sick or hospitalized in
the family.
His father is the one who makes
the decisions needed for the
family’s betterment.
condition before the surgery.
While the surgery was ongoing he
was conscious of what was
happening, he often sings along
with the music in the OR, and he
stated that he could not sleep.
He stated that he remembers
everything that had happened, the
time and place, before, during, and
after the operation.
Although he can’t feel any pain
while on surgery he describe the
feeling like “murag gihabwa man
akong tinae”.
After the surgery, he waited to fart
so he stayed awake until late in
the evening and when he farted he
slept at ease.
He doesn’t view his incision site
negatively, it did not affect on how
he thinks about himself although
he is concerned of how the incision
looks, he stated that he wanted to
take a look the incision inside of
the dressing, and asks that if the
incision is healing well.
When his mother is not there, his
girlfriend also takes turns in
helping him during his stay in the
hospital. He never felt alone
because he has his girlfriend and
family alongside him.
 He is active in sexual activities He doesn’t engage in sexual
9. Sexual and
and does not use any kind of activities due to hospitalization.
Reproduction
contraceptives. He engages in Thou he plans to resume on it after
sexual activities at least thrice a the sutured site of incision heals.
week.
He doesn’t have any sexual
problems.

When he is stressed, his coping Since the patient can’t vape inside
10.Stress and
mechanism as the client stated the hospital, he only watches
tolerance
“mag chill-chill” and “ mag vape” videos from his mobile phone to
coping
distract himself.

The patient believes that In his hospitalization, he believes

11.Values and
violence isn’t good “tanan that God helped him get through
Belief
problema kay ma sulbad ra sa this challenge in life because he
saktong storya” said that “Mo tuo jud ko nga mo
He is a member of Iglesia ni tabang ang Ginoo”
Cristo, although he isn’t an
active member participating in
their religious activities, he still
believes in God.
Even though eating “dinuguan”
is prohibited in his religion, he
still enjoys eating it.