Framework for Health Assessment

2. 11 Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns

2.5. Sleep—Rest Pattern

Determine the sleep and rest quality of a client.

  • Sleep Habits:
    How would you rate the quality of your sleep?
  • Special Problems
    • Do you ever experience difficulty with falling asleep? Remaining asleep?
    • Do you ever feel fatigued after a sleep period?
  • Sleep Aids
    • What helps you to fall asleep? medications? reading? relaxation technique? Watching TV? Listening to music?
    • Observe appearance of your client, such as pale and puffy eyes with dark circles.
    • Observe behavior of your client, such as yawning, dozing during day, irritability and short attention span.
  • Wellness Diagnosis: Opportunity to enhance sleep
  • Risk Diagnosis: Risk for sleep pattern disturbance
  • Actual Diagnosis: Sleep Pattern Disturbance.