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Functional Health Patterns for Asthma

Nursing care is a therapeutic process that involves cooperation between nurses with clients, families, or communities to achieve the level of health, optimal in providing nursing care to use methods that include the nursing process: assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.

1. Health Perception Health Management Pattern
Symptoms of asthma can limit people to behave in a normal life with asthma so that the client must change their lifestyles according to the conditions that allow not happen asthma attacks (Antony Crokett; 1997 Tjien Daniel; 1991 Karnen B; 1994)

2. Nutritional Metabolic Pattern
Need to be assessed on the nutritional status of clients include, amount, frequency, and the difficulties in meeting their needs. As well as on the client tightness, once potential shortages in meeting nutritional needs, this is because dipsnea while eating, metabolic rate and anxiety experienced by the client, (Hudak and Gallo; 1997)

3. Elimination Pattern
Needs to be studied about bowel and bladder habits include colors, shapes, concentration, frequency, quantity, and difficulty in performing.

4. Activity Exercise Pattern
Need to be assessed on the daily activities of clients such as sports, work and other activities. Physical activity can occur asthma trigger factor called Exerase Induced Asthma, (Tjien Daniel; 1991)

5. Sleep Rest Pattern
Need to be assessed on how sleep and rest clients include how long the client sleep and rest. And how much due to fatigue experienced by the client. Presence of wheezing, breathlessness and orthopnea may affect sleep patterns and break the client, (Antony C; 1997)

6. Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
Abnormalities in the perception and cognitive patterns will affect the client's self-concept and ultimately affect the number of stressors experienced by the client so that the possibility of asthma attacks berulangpun will be higher.

7. Self-Perception-Self-Concept Pattern
Need to be assessed on the client's perception of the disease. Perception that one can inhibit cooperative response to the client. The wrong way of looking at themselves will also be a stressor in the lives of clients. The more stressors that exist in the lives of clients with asthma increases the likelihood of recurrent asthma attacks.

8. Role-Relationship Pattern
Symptoms of asthma symptoms greatly restrict clients to live a normal life. Clients need to adjust the conditions with good client relationships and roles within the household, community or work environment, (Antony C, 1997).

9. Sexuality-Reproductive
Sexual reproduction is a basic human need, when these needs are not met will be a problem in the client's life. This issue will be a stressor that will increase the likelihood of asthma attacks.

10. Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
Stress and emotional tension is intrinsic factors trigger asthma attacks it is necessary to study the causes of stress. Frequency and impact on the lives of clients and how to manage the stressors, (Tjien Daniel; 1991)

11. Value-Belief Pattern
Proximity clients on something that he believed the world to believe can increase the power of the soul client. Client confidence in God and is a constructive method of stress reduction.

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