The patients' information levels regarding nutrition and nurses' efficiency postoperative period

SUMMARY The purpose of the present study is to determine the nutrition knowledge level of 120 adult hospitalizied patients in Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi general surgery serv ice and the effectiveness of nurses' s on the nutrition of the patients. A public survey form including 30 questions was used for collecting the data. Pierson carrelation and One- Way ANOVA tests and percentage method was used for evolution of the collected data. The research contains the personel characteristhics of patients, causes of feeding and whom the patients wonder to concer their feeding problems and effectiveness of nurses. According to results of our research; The difference of the genders, the education levels and the occupations of the patients do not play an important role on the knowledge of nutrition and the effectiveness of nursing services. But the effectiveness of nurses about the nutrition of the patients in the group who is single or married, in other words not widow or widowers, and under 55 years was found low. Because of this, the nurses have to improve themselves in order to increase the knowledge levels of nutrition. KEY WORDS Nutrition, Nurse, Surgery Service, Patient