Objective: Malnutrition is an important complication that is common in critically ill patients and affects the efficiency of clinical treatment. The level of knowledge and attitudes of nurses, who have an important role in clinical treatment, about nutritional care, has an important place in patient care. Various factors affect the knowledge of and attitudes to nutritional care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the nutritional attitudes, levels of knowledge, and perceptions toward care in nurses working in internal medicine and intensive care clinics.
Materials and
Methods: The study was completed with 265 internal medicine and intensive care clinic nurses who volunteered to participate in the study and were not on leave during the data collection process without sample selection.

Results: It was stated by 53.6% of the nurses that they had not received nutritional education, 59.62% reported a moderate level of nutritional care knowledge, and 56.6% were willing to receive nutritional education. The mean scores of the nurses were found to be 22.95±3.1 for attitudes toward the importance of nutritional assessment, 26.77±3.53 for level of knowledge of nutritional care, and 33.63±5.12 for perceived quality of nutritional care.

Conclusion: The nurses in this study had positive attitudes toward the importance of nutritional assessment and a moderate level of knowledge of nutritional care and perceived quality of nutritional care.