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Health Perception/Health Management
- Assists individuals families or groups who may have:
- Limited knowledge/understanding of their current health status
- How to achieve/maintain good health
- Problems in this health pattern are a result of lack of perception and management
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Activity and Exercise
- Focuses on ADL’s and the amount of energy available to the individual to support these activities
- Includes all aspects of maintaining self and leisure activities
- Will include dysfunctions of cardiac, respiratory and neuromuscular function because energy and mobility are dependent upon them
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Nutrition & Metabolism
- Focuses on food and fluid intake and the body’s use of that intake
- Problems may arise from a physiologic illness or psychological illness, ie. stress, under eating/overeating
- Sociologic - income, inadequate storage, cultural food preferences
- Looks at the whole relationship between food and function
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Elimination
- Focuses on bowel and bladder functioning
- May be primary reason for seeking healthcare or may be a secondary problem to impaired mobility
- Includes habits of excretory irregularity, aids for regularity, or devices for incontinence
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Sleep-Rest Pattern
- Includes relaxation sleep and rest
- Looks specifically on how a pt. rates / judges the adequacy in terms of quantity or quality
- Looks at energy level in response to adequacy and use of sleep aids
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Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
- Initial step in assessment paramount in maintaining and returning to health
- How a pt thinks, perceives, and incorporates those processes in their life to best adapt and function
- Deals with how a pt thinks, their thought processes, and knowledge (both acquisition and application
- Perception– interpretation of sensory stimuli
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Self Perception-Self Concept
- Client contributes self-knowledge through interactions with the nurse or other members of the healthcare team
- Composed of beliefs attitudes and values about the self, body image, self esteem and information about abilities
- Determinant of pts. interaction with others
- Affected by experiences prior and during the course of Illness
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Role-Relationship Pattern
- Concerned with how a person feels they are performing an expected behavior delineated by the self and others
- Can include family and work roles/responsibilities roles, work and social/cultural roles
- Can also be important in patient teaching as a source of strength
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Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern
- Focuses on the sexual/reproductive aspects of an individual over the entire life span.
- Involve sex role behavior (and how we relate to each other, gender ID, physiologic and biologic functioning, cultural/societal expectations of sexual behavior capability to procreate and express sexual feelings
- Problems may result from illness, lifestyle, violence, or self - concept
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Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
- Ability to respond is affected by a complex interaction of physical social and emotional reactions (physiological/psychosocial)
- Assessment of this pattern focuses on gaining an understanding of the interaction of those factors
- Ability to respond to stress has an effect on the well-being of the system
- Stress Tolerance implies responses to the usual amount of stress
- Coping refers to the systems pattern of responding to non-routine threats
- Efforts to master a condition when the usual routine or automatic response may be not readily available
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Value-Belief Pattern
- At core of existence: judgment and interpretation of the meaning of life
- Interconnectedness with the spiritual side and the environment
- Gives meaning and purpose to life
- Disturbances may be mild or severe depending on health problem
- Faith retention/ability to maintain religious practices beliefs practices and spiritual life
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