Digestive pathology, extremely vast and complex, includes many clinical entities, each assuming specific ways to address the diagnosis and the therapeutic plan. Knowing these major issues will allow the nursing process to proceed in an appropriate manner; its sequence must therefore be more logical and finally with real benefits in terms of patient’s care. One of the major sections of the digestive pathology is hepatology, liver diseases occupying the first rank regarding the incidence and severity of many of them. Thus, one of the conditions that dominate liver pathology is represented by cirrhosis whose knowledge of its fundamental parameters, through exploration and treatment, makes the laborious care plan of the cirrhotic patient be run in a proper manner