Abstract:

Pulmonary hypertension which is one of the rare diseases causing the greatest difficulty in its diagnosis and treatment, is a complex and progressive disease leading to right heart failure and death in the course of time due to vascular resistance increase. Pulmonary hypertension is mainly encountered in young women and its prevalence in the world remains a mystery. The symptoms that patients with pulmonary hypertension experience reduce the quality of life by restricting the functional capacity and daily life activities. Besides its bad prognosis, the disease has a complex treatment and care, which increases the systematic care need of patients. In nursing practices, together with putting the theories and models into practice the profession-specific applications have become systematic and standard. The case was evaluated with Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns Model which handles people in a biopsychosocial dimension and explains their needs in eleven functional areas. The nursing care was planned and applied in line with the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association nursing diagnoses.

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