Functional Health Domain Assessment
For rehabilitation care they are the only outcomes that can be measured.
Functional health domain assessment. Functional health assessment 1. There are two phases in assessment. Functional health patterns provide a format for the admission assessment and a database for nursing diagnoses.
Functional health pattern marjorie gordon 1987 proposed functional health patterns as a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing data base. Tools for the psychiatrist on which this slideshow is based. A nursing history provides a description of a client s functional patterns.
This section contains assessment guidelines based on the health pattern definitions. The functional assessment tool is used to assist in determining the presence of a moderate to severe functional impairment as a result of the mental illness. When a functional assessment or screen identifies problems with physical function this should trigger an offer of a more comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment and rehabilitation 1 6 7 even if no problems are identified record details of the functional assessment because these will prove useful in monitoring progress.
This functional domain is generally more relevant to assessing an individual s suitability to perform a specific occupation rather than his or her general capacity to work. This article addresses an aspect of outcomes assessment that includes outcomes from the perspective of the patient. Measurement tools exist and are being used to quanti.
Namely functional health status and patient satisfaction. The tool consists of five scales which evaluate functional level in the following domains. Because older adults are often seen by multiple healthcare professionals robust processes are needed to allow for sharing of data and appropriate referral while.
Functional health can be defined as the ability to perform self care activities such as bathing dressing using the toilet grooming and feeding oneself known as the activities of daily living adls roper et al 2000. These 11 categories make possible a systematic and standardized approach to data collection and enable the nurse to determine the following aspects of health and.