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The term transsexual used within the scope of gender identity disorder; is an umbrella term used to describe individuals with another gender identity that does not match the gender assigned to them. In short, nurses have important responsibilities in the care of individuals defined as trans and in gender differences. Because nurses are often an important reference in outpatient and hospital services, from the first meeting to the last meeting, as well as conducting activities to promote health and prevent diseases. Nurses, who provide care by respecting the sexual diversity, gender and other characteristics of people, also ensure that transgender people have easy access to health services. The use of nursing care model provides to handle and recognize people in all dimensions, to understand / reveal the situations that cause problems in humans, to provide nursing service with a certain logic and systematically, and to develop professional perspective and professional communication. Neuman Systems Model, one of the care models, is a nursing model with a holistic perspective that focuses on stressors that harm individuals' well-being or health. Neuman's model helps individuals to be empowered in terms of health with special nursing interventions to reduce / relieve stress. Therefore, the goal of nurses is to provide optimal health for sick / healthy people or to reduce their stress through the use of primary, secondary or tertiary prevention interventions for health protection. This study was made as an example of the use of the Neuman Systems Model in the care of a 32-year-old female patient with gender identity disorder.

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