Framework for Health Assessment

2. 11 Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns

2.8. Cognitive Pattern

Ability to Understand: Explain what your doctor has told you about your health.

Ability to Communicate: Can you tell me how you feel about your current state of health?

Ability to Remember: Are you able to remember recent events and events of long ago? Explain.

Ability to Make Decisions: Describe how you feel when faced with a decision.

Perform Mental Status Assessment for your client.

Wellness Diagnosis: Opportunity to enhance cognition

Risk Diagnosis: Risk for altered thought processes

Actual Diagnoses: Acute / Chronic confusion; Knowledge Deficit (Specify) and Impaired Memory