Question 2 – Discuss how functional patterns help a nurse understand the current and past state of health for a patient. Using a condition or disease associated with an elimination complexity, provide an example.
For instance, Malaria is a disease that is related to elimination complexity. Moreover, nurses can use the functional pattern to help them tackle the disease efficiently. The nurses ask the patient a series of questions to determine the symptoms and the kind of illness the patient is suffering. Through previous records, nurses realize Malaria’s common symptoms with other diseases like Typhoid, which is not associated with elimination complexity. For example, fever is common in both Typhoid and Malaria. The nurses use the functional pattern to eliminate the possibility of Typhoid.
