Nursing Care of Patient with Acromegaly Disease — Case Report

Abstract

Pituitary tumors are the most common tumors of benign brain tumors, accounting for about one-fifth of all intra cranial tumors. Pituitary tumors include; nonfunctional adenomas and prolactinomas are followed by tumors that secrete growth hormone or acromegaly. Physical changes and systemic complications caused by acromegaly have negative effects on the bio-physiological, psychological and social dimensions of individuals. Diagnosis, treatment, care and follow-up of the disease; It requires a approach to multidisciplinary from endocrine to neurosurgery. The nurse should know the signs and symptoms of the disease, treatment, side effects that may be caused by the treatment, complications and the care interventions to solve the problems that arise and should plan the individualized care to improve the psychological health and quality of life by increasing the individual’s biophysiological functions. The use of the nursing process for the scientific and systematic realization of the care, as well as the use of the nursing process to get her with a model/theory, guide the nurse in the provision of individualized care. In this context, individualized care of the patient who is planned to be operated due to acromegaly, a rare disease, is discussed by integrating with the Model of Nursing. (JNNN 2019;8(4):162–169)