Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment
Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment
Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) Toddler
Erickson’s Developmental Stage:
Autonomy
versus shame and doubt
Preschool-Aged
Erickson’s Developmental Stage:
Initiative
versus guilt School-Aged
Erickson’s Developmental Stage:
Industry
Versus inferiority
Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management:
List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group.
List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group.
“Toddlers depend on their parents/caregivers for health management, overall health influenced by their parents” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“Toddlers are ready to develop sense of self and separate from their parents, and understanding and respecting this evolving independence is common parental challenge”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010). “Preschooler’s begin to understand they have a role in their own health”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“They become more responsible for their own health management, brushing teeth, taking medication, bathing, and wearing proper clothing for the weather”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010). “School aged children learn to accept personal responsibility in self-care tasks, hygiene, nutrition, physical activity, sleep, safety”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“School age children know germs play role in illness (germ theory), but don’t understand how germs work” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“Parents do not perform good health promotion with their toddlers, such as brushing teeth, leading to dental caries”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“Parents do not show the importance of hand washing and when and why it is needed. Parents fall into a pattern of illness care, missing continued guidance and health promotion, disease prevention information”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010). “Parents do not bother to teach their preschooler about health and
Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) Toddler
Erickson’s Developmental Stage:
Autonomy
versus shame and doubt
Preschool-Aged
Erickson’s Developmental Stage:
Initiative
versus guilt School-Aged
Erickson’s Developmental Stage:
Industry
Versus inferiority
Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management:
List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group.
List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group.
“Toddlers depend on their parents/caregivers for health management, overall health influenced by their parents” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“Toddlers are ready to develop sense of self and separate from their parents, and understanding and respecting this evolving independence is common parental challenge”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010). “Preschooler’s begin to understand they have a role in their own health”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“They become more responsible for their own health management, brushing teeth, taking medication, bathing, and wearing proper clothing for the weather”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010). “School aged children learn to accept personal responsibility in self-care tasks, hygiene, nutrition, physical activity, sleep, safety”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“School age children know germs play role in illness (germ theory), but don’t understand how germs work” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“Parents do not perform good health promotion with their toddlers, such as brushing teeth, leading to dental caries”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010).
“Parents do not show the importance of hand washing and when and why it is needed. Parents fall into a pattern of illness care, missing continued guidance and health promotion, disease prevention information”
(Edelman & Mandle, 2010). “Parents do not bother to teach their preschooler about health and