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