Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns and Their Association with Patient and Organizational Outcomes: A Scoping Review
Clarissa Santos de Lima Araújo·L. Bertocchi·Agueda Mª Ruiz Zimmer Cavalcante·Janaína Guimarães Valadares·Flavíana Vieira·Dorothy Jones·Natália Del Angelo Aredes·Larissa Maiara da Silva Alves Souza
Background/Objectives: Nursing assessment frameworks play a critical role in guiding holistic patient evaluations, standardizing documentation, and supporting organizational quality and safety initiatives. Among these, Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns (FHPs) offer a comprehensive and widely used framework for nursing assessment. However, no review has synthesized evidence on their association with outcomes. This scoping review aimed to map evidence on the use of FHPs in relation to patient an