Gordon's functional health patterns is a means to organize and evaluate components or variables that influence the health of individuals, families or communities. Its framework gave rise to the NANDA nursing diagnoses. Recognition of
patterns that have a potential for dysfunction are risks that should be identified as problems that need to be resolved (Edelman, Kudzma & Mandle, 2014). Utilizing Gordon’s framework allows nurses to define patient situations, create
nursing diagnoses, plan interventions and evaluate patient outcomes. Gordon believes that nursing assessment is a systematized method wherein relevant patient data is integrated to assess patient problems that need to be addressed.
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patterns that have a potential for dysfunction are risks that should be identified as problems that need to be resolved (Edelman, Kudzma & Mandle, 2014). Utilizing Gordon’s framework allows nurses to define patient situations, create
nursing diagnoses, plan interventions and evaluate patient outcomes. Gordon believes that nursing assessment is a systematized method wherein relevant patient data is integrated to assess patient problems that need to be addressed.
The structure provided by this assessment tool