Which functional health pattern would be MOST appropriate to use to categorize this data: client is awake, alert, and oriented
a. sleep and rest pattern c. cognitive and perceptual pattern
b. health management pattern d. activity and exercise pattern.
C
Functional health patterns (e.g., health perception/management, nutritional/metabolic, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive/perceptual, sleep/rest, self-perception/self-concept, role/relationship, sexuality/reproduction, coping/stress-tolerance, and value/belief) organize client data to determine if a client's current health patterns are working or not working. Level of conscience would be included in the cognitive and perceptual pattern data.
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