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INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to investigate the nurses' views on the nutritional assessment of patients. METHODS: The research group consist of nurses who is responsible of adult patients at internal medicine, surgical clinics and intensive care units (General Surgery, Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Neurosurgery and Cardiovascular Surgery) in an university hospital(n: 400). The sample of the study consisted of 334 nurses who voluntarily agreed to participate in the research. In the collection of the research data the questionnaire that improved according to the literature has used to determine nurses’ opinions about assessment of the nutrition. In analyzing the data, mean and percentile values has been calculated. RESULTS: It is determined that the average age of nurses that participated were 33.41 ±6.85, the 35% of them have 5-10 years of professional experience and 60.8% of them are working in internal clinics. 46.4% of the nurses stated that they have no idea about the incidence of malnutrition cases,49.7% of them stated that primarily doctors focused on nutrition issues, 39.2% of them stated nurses focused on nutrition issues. 37.4% of participating nurses stated the that nutritional assessment have done by doctors, 23.6% of them stated the dietitians and 15.2% of them stated by nurses. Nurses participated in the study, stated that the obstacles in making effective and continuous nutritional assessment of patients were excessive workload(87.7%) and lack of knowledge(41%). CONCLUSION: From the results, the nurses can not take an active role in nutritional assessment and it is found that it’s the biggest cause was excess workload. 

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