Childrens Functional Health Pattern Assessment
Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) | Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: | Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: | School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: | 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. | 1. Toddlers depend on their parents for health management. 2. Toddlers have little understanding of the meaning of health. | 1, Very accurate perception of external parts. 2. Many questions are about bodily functions. | 1 They understand the idea of health and what causes illness. 2. They relate illness using the germ theory or the punishment theory. | | 1. Unsafe conditions at home example pool not fenced in. 2. Use of appropriate car seat and knowing the correct size for the toddler. | 1. Pain or illness may be viewed as punishment. 2. Lack of reinforcement of healthy activities at home by parents. | 1. Increase of dental caries in their age group. 2. There is an increase of fat consumption at this age. | Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: 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. | 1. Weaning from the breast to bottle. 2.Toddlers are learning to feed themselves. Introducing new foods. | 1.Daily calcium intake of 740 mg/ day 2. Reaction to taste and texture of foods and expressing opinion. Trying to control their environment. | 1. Willingness to try new foods, but may dislike vegetables and fruits. 2. Children making their own snacks after school. | | The use of a bottle with milk at bedtime causing dental caries. 2. Too much milk intake decreasing