Framework for Health Assessment

2.4. Activity—Exercise Pattern

An assessment is made of any factors that affect or interfere with the client's routine activities of daily living. Activities of daily living, including routines of exercise, leisure, and recreation. It is necessary for personal hygiene, cooking, shopping, eating, maintaining the home, and working.

• Describe your activities on a normal day (Including hygiene activities, eating activities).
• Do you have difficulty with any of these self-care activities? Explain.
• Does anyone help you with these activities? How?
• Do you use any special devices to help you with your activities?
• Does your current physical health affect any of these activities e.g. dyspnea, shortness of breath, palpations, chest pain, stiffness, weakness)? Explain.

• Describe what you do to make a living.
• Do you feel it has affected your health?
• How has your health affected your ability to work?
• Assess client’s Thoracic and Lung; Peripheral Vascular and Musculoskeletal system

• Opportunity to enhance effective cardiac output
• Opportunity to enhance effective self-care activities
• Opportunity to enhance adequate tissue perfusion
• Opportunity to enhance effective breathing pattern

• Risk for Disorganized Infant Behavior
• Risk for Peripheral Neurovascular Dysfunction
• Risk for altered respiratory function

• Activity Intolerance
• Impaired Gas Exchange
• Ineffective Airway Clearance
• Ineffective Breathing Pattern
• Impaired Physical Mobility
• Inability to Sustain Spontaneous Ventilation
• Altered Tissue Perfusion