This document provides an overview of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns which are used to assess and classify client health issues. It lists over 100 health perception and management concerns, nutritional-metabolic concerns, elimination concerns, and activity-exercise concerns. Each concern is accompanied by a code number and page range reference. The patterns cover a wide breadth of potential client problems from risk of falls to ineffective breastfeeding to impaired wound healing. They provide a framework to systematically evaluate client health status and needs.

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GORDON’S FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS*
HEALTH PERCEPTION-HEALTH
MANAGEMENT PATTERN
Contamination 204–212
Disturbed energy field 279–282
Effective therapeutic regimen management
680–683
Health-seeking behaviors (specify)
370–376
Ineffective community therapeutic regimen
management 686–688
Ineffective family therapeutic regimen
management 689–691
Ineffective health maintenance 366–370
Ineffective protection 547–549
Ineffective therapeutic regimen management
683–686
Noncompliance 473–478
Readiness for enhanced immunization status
392–396
Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen
management 691–694
Risk for contamination 212–217
Risk for falls 291–295
Risk for infection 409–413
Risk for injury (trauma) 414–418
Risk for perioperative positioning injury
418–421
Risk for poisoning 523–527
Risk for suffocation 662–666
NUTRITIONAL-METABOLIC PATTERN
Adult failure to thrive 287–291
Deficient fluid volume 320–327
Effective breastfeeding 127–130
Excess fluid volume 327–331
Hyperthermia 383–387
Hypothermia 388–392
Imbalanced nutrition: more than body
requirements 483–487
Imbalanced nutrition: less than body
requirements 478–483
Imbalanced nutrition: risk for more than
body requirements 488–491
Impaired dentition 252–256
Impaired oral mucous membrane
494–498
Impaired skin integrity 619–624
Impaired swallowing 675–680
Impaired tissue integrity (specify type)
701–705
Ineffective breastfeeding 130–136
Ineffective infant feeding pattern 406–409
Ineffective thermoregulation 694–696
Interrupted breastfeeding 136–140
Latex allergy response 81–85
Nausea 464–469
Readiness for enhanced fluid balance
316–320
Readiness for enhanced nutrition 491–494
Risk for aspiration 98–101
Risk for deficient fluid volume 331–334
Risk for imbalanced fluid volume 334–337
Risk for imbalanced body temperature
120–123
Risk for latex allergy response 85–87
Risk for impaired liver function 445–448
Risk for impaired skin integrity 624–627
Risk for unstable blood glucose 341–345
ELIMINATION PATTERN
Bowel incontinence 123–127
Constipation 194–199
Diarrhea 259–264
Functional urinary incontinence 729–732
Impaired urinary elimination 721–726
Overflow urinary incontinence 732–735
Perceived constipation 199–201
Readiness for enhanced urinary elimination
726–729
Reflex urinary incontinence 735–738
Risk for constipation 201–204
Risk for urge urinary incontinence 738–741
Stress urinary incontinence 741–744
Total urinary incontinence 744–748
Urge urinary incontinence 748–752
Urinary retention 752–756
ACTIVITY-EXERCISE PATTERN
Activity intolerance (specify) 70–73
Autonomic dysreflexia 105–108
Decreased cardiac output 145–151
Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity
427–430
Deficient diversional activity 276–279
Delayed growth and development 361–366
Delayed surgical recovery 670–674
Disorganized infant behavior 396–402
Dysfunctional ventilatory weaning response
762–766
Fatigue 307–312
Impaired spontaneous ventilation 756– 762
Impaired bed mobility 454–457
Impaired gas exchange 337–341
Impaired home maintenance 373–376
Impaired physical mobility 457–461
Impaired transfer ability 714–716
Impaired walking 774–777
Impaired wheelchair mobility 461–464
Ineffective airway clearance 77–81
Ineffective breathing pattern 140–144
Ineffective tissue perfusion (specify)
705–714
Readiness for enhanced organized infant
behavior 402–405
Readiness for enhanced self-care 580–583
Risk for delayed development 256–259
Risk for disorganized infant behavior
405–406
Risk for disproportionate growth 356–360
Risk for activity intolerance 74–76
Risk for autonomic dysreflexia 108–111
Risk for disuse syndrome 270–275
Risk for peripheral neurovascular
dysfunction 519–523
Risk for sudden infant death syndrome
243–247
Sedentary lifestyle 440–445
Self-care deficit (specify: bathing/hygiene,
dressing/grooming, feeding, toileting)
575–580
Wandering 777–780
*Modified by Marjory Gordon, 2007, with permission.