Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method devised by Marjory Gordon to be used by the nurses in the nursing process to provide more comprehensive assessment of the client.
Below contains the list of nursing diagnoses approved by NANDA-I.
Health Perception and Management Pattern
- Contamination
- Disturbed energy field
- Effective therapeutic regimen management
- Health-seeking behaviors
- Ineffective community therapeutic regimen management
- Ineffective family therapeutic regimen management
- Ineffective health maintenance
- Ineffective protection
- Ineffective therapeutic regimen management
- Noncompliance
- Readiness for enhanced immunization status
- Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen management
- Risk for contamination
- Risk for falls
- Risk for infection
- Risk for injury (trauma)
- Risk for perioperative positioning injury
- Risk for poisoning
- Risk for suffocation
Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
- Adult failure to thrive
- Deficient blood volume
- Effective breastfeeding
- Excess fluid volume
- Hyperthermia
- Hypothermia
- Imbalanced nutrition: more than body requirements
- Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements
- Imbalanced nutrition: risk for more than body requirements
- Impaired dentition
- Impaired oral mucous membrane
- Impaired skin integrity
- Impaired swallowing
- Impaired tissue integrity (specify type)
- Ineffective breastfeeding
- Ineffective infant feeding pattern
- Ineffective thermoregulation
- Interrupted breastfeeding
- Latex allergy response
- Nausea
- Readiness for enhanced fluid balance
- Readiness for enhanced nutrition
- Risk for aspiration
- Risk for deficient fluid volume
- Risk for imbalanced fluid volume
- Risk for imbalanced body temperature
- Risk for latex allergy response
- Risk for impaired liver function
- Risk for impaired skin integrity
- Risk for unstable blood glucose
Elimination Pattern
- Bowel incontinence
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Functional urinary incontinence
- Impaired urinary elimination
- Overflow urinary incontinence
- Perceived constipation
- Readiness for enhanced urinary elimination
- Reflex urinary incontinence
- Risk for constipation
- Risk for urge urinary incontinence
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Total urinary incontinence
- Urge urinary incontinence
- Urinary retention
Activity-Exercise Pattern
- Activity intolerance (specify)
- Autonomic dysreflexia
- Decreased cardiac output
- Decreased intracranial adaptive capacity
- Deficient diversional activity
- Delayed growth and development
- Delayed surgical recovery
- Disorganized infant behavior
- Dysfunctional ventilatory weaning response
- Fatigue
- Impaired spontaneous ventilation
- Impaired bed mobility
- Impaired gas exchange
- Impaired home maintenance
- Impaired physical mobility
- Impaired transfer ability
- Impaired walking
- Impaired wheelchair mobility
- Ineffective airway clearance
- Ineffective breathing pattern
- Ineffective tissue perfusion (specify)
- Readiness for enhanced organized infant behavior
- Risk for disproportionate growth
- Risk for activity intolerance
- Risk for autonomic dysreflexia
- Risk for disuse syndrome
- Risk for peripheral neurovascular dysfunction
- Risk for sudden infant death syndrome
- Sedentary lifestyle
- Self-care deficit (specify: bathing/hygiene, dressing/grooming, feeding, toileting)
- Wandering
Sleep-Rest Pattern
- Insomnia
- Readiness for enhanced sleep
- Sleep deprivation
Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
- Acute confusion
- Acute pain
- Chronic confusion
- Chronic pain
- Decisional conflict (specify)
- Deficient knowledge (specify)
- Disturbed sensory perception (specify)
- Disturbed thought process
- Impaired environmental interpretation syndrome
- Impaired memory
- Readiness for enhanced comfort
- Readiness for enhanced decision making
- Readiness for enhanced knowledge
- Risk for acute confusion
- Unilateral neglect
Self-Perception and Self-Conception Pattern
- Anxiety
- Chronic low self-esteem
- Death anxiety
- Disturbed body image
- Disturbed personal identity
- Fear
- Hopelessness
- Powerlessness
- Readiness for enhanced hope
- Readiness for enhanced power
- Readiness for enhanced self-concept
- Risk for compromised human dignity
- Risk for loneliness
- Risk for self-directed violence
- Risk for powerlessness
- Risk for situational low self-esteem
- Situational low self-esteem
Role-Relationship Pattern
- Caregiver role strain
- Chronic sorrow
- Dysfunctional family process: alcoholism
- Impaired parenting
- Impaired social interaction
- Impaired verbal communication
- Ineffective role performance
- Interrupted family process
- Parental role conflict
- Readiness for enhanced communication
- Readiness for enhanced family processes
- Readiness for enhanced parenting
- Relocation stress syndrome
- Risk for caregiver role strain
- Risk for complicated grieving
- Risk for impaired parent/child attachment
- Risk for impaired parenting
- Risk for relocation stress syndrome
- Risk for other-directed violence
- Social dysfunction
Sexuality-Reproductive
- Ineffective sexuality pattern
- Rape-trauma syndrome
- Rape-trauma syndrome: compound reaction
- Rape-trauma syndrime: silent reaction
- Sexual dysfunction
Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
- Compound family coping
- Defensive coping
- Disabled family coping
- Ineffective community coping
- Ineffective coping
- Ineffective denial
- Post-trauma syndrome
- Readiness for enhanced community coping
- Readiness for enhanced coping
- Readiness for enhanced family coping
- Risk for self-mutilation
- Risk for suicide
- Risk for post-trauma syndrome
- Risk-prone health behaviors
- Self-mutilation
- Stress overload
Value-Belief Pattern
- Impaired religiosity
- Moral distress
- Readiness for enhanced religiosity
- Readiness for enhanced spiritual well-being
- Risk for impaired religiosity
- Risk for spiritual distress
- Spiritual distress
These were modified by Marjory Gordon on 2007, with permission.




