Gordon’s 11 Health Patterns

with Corresponding Nursing

Diagnosis
GROUP 2

Health Perception and
Health Management
 Contamination
 Disturbed energy field
 Effective Therapeutic
Regimen Management
 Health-seeking behaviours
 Ineffective community
therapeutic regimen
management
 Ineffective health
maintenance
 Ineffective protection
 Noncompliance
 Readiness for enhanced
immunization
 Risk forcontamination
 Risk for infection
 Risk for injury
 Risk for perioperative
positioning injury
 Risk for poisoning
 Risk for sudden infant death
syndrome
 Risk for suffocation
 Risk for trauma
 Risk-prone health behaviour
Gordon’s Eleven Functional Health
Patterns and Nursing Diagnosis
Nutritional
Metabolic Pattern
 Adult failure to thrive
 Deficient fluid volume
 Effective breastfeeding
 Excess fluid volume
 Hyperthermia
 Hypothermia
 Imbalanced nutrition
 Impaired dentition
 Impaired oral mucous
membrane
 Impaired skin integrity
 Impaired swallowing
 Impaired tissue integrity
 Ineffective infant feeding
 Ineffective
thermoregulation
 Latex allergy response
 Nausea
 Readiness for enhanced
fluid balance
 Readiness for enhanced
nutrition
 Risk for aspiration
 Risk for unstable blood
glucose
Elimination Activity and Cognitive-Perceptual
Pattern Exercise Pattern Pattern
 Bowel  Activity intolerance  Acute confusion
incontinence  Autonomic dysreflexia  Acute pain
 Constipation  Decreased cardiac  Chronic confusion
 Diarrhea output  Chronic pain
 Functional urina-  Decreased diversonal  Decisional conflict
ry incontinence activity  Deficient knowledge
 Impaired urinary  Delayed growth and  Disturbed sensory
elimination development perception
 Perceived  Delayed surgical  Disturbed thought process
constipation recovery  Impaired environmental
 Readiness for en-  Fatigue interpretation syndrome
hanced urinary  Impaired bed mobility  Impaired memory
elimination  Impaired gas exchange  Readiness for enhanced
 Reflex urinary  Impaired home comfort
incontinence maintenance  Readiness for enhanced
 Risk for  Impaired physical decision-making
constipation mobility  Readiness for enhanced
 Stress urinary  Impaired transfer knowledge
incontinence ability  Risk for acute confusion
 Total urinary  Impaired walking  Unilateral neglect
incontinence  Risk for disuse
 Urge urinary syndrome
incontinence  Sedentary lifestyle
 Urinary retention  Self-care deficit
 Wandering
 Gordon’s Eleven Functional
Health Patterns

Sexuality and
Sleep-Rest Self-Perception and Role-Relationship Reproduction Coping-Stress Value-Belief
Pattern Self-Concept Pattern Pattern Pattern Tolerance Pattern Pattern
 Insomnia  Anxiety  Caregiver role strain  Ineffective  Compromised family  Impaired
 Readiness for  Disturbed body image  Chronic sorrow sexuality patterns coping religiosity
enhanced  Chronic low self-esteem  Complicated grieving  Rape-trauma  Defensive coping  Moral distress
sleep  Death anxiety  Grieving syndrome  Disabled family coping  Readies for
 Sleep  Disturbed personal identity  Impaired social  Sexual dysfunction  Impaired adjustment enhanced
deprivation  Fear interaction  Ineffective community religiosity
 Hopelessness  Impaired verbal coping  Readiness for
 Powerlessness communication  Ineffective coping enhanced
 Readiness for enhanced  Ineffective role  Ineffective denial spiritual well-
power performance  Post-trauma syndrome being
 Readiness for enhanced  Interrupted family  Readiness for enhan-  Risk for impaired
self-concept processes ced community coping religiosity
 Risk for compromised  Parental role conflict  Readiness for  Risk for spiritual
human dignity  Readiness for enhanced coping distress
 Risk for loneliness enhanced comm.  Readiness for  Spiritual distress
 Risk for powerlessness  Readiness for enhanced family
 Risk for situational low self- enhanced parenting coping
esteem  Relocation stress  Risk for self-mutilation
 Risk for other-directed syndrome  Risk for suicide
violence  Risk for caregiver role  Risk for post-trauma
 Risk for self-directed strain syndrome
violence  Risk for complicated  Self-mutilation
 Situational low self-esteem grieving  Stress overload
 Social isolation