Framework for Health Assessment

2.1. Health Perception-Health Management Pattern

Determine how the client perceives and manages his or her health. Compliance with current and past nursing and, medical recommendations. The client's ability to perceive the relationship between activities of daily living and health.

• Client's Perception of Health: Describe your health.
• Client's Perception of Illness: Describe your illness or current health problem.
• Health Management and Habits: Tell me what you do when you have a health problem.
• Compliance with Prescribed Medications and Treatments; Have you been able to take your prescribed medications? If not, what caused your inability to do so?
• Wellness Diagnoses: Effective Management of Therapeutic Regimen
• Risk Diagnoses: Risk for Injury & Risk for Trauma
• Actual Diagnoses: Altered Growth and Development; Ineffective Management of Therapeutic Regimen: Individual; Ineffective Management of Therapeutic Regimen: Family