Nursing Nutrition Education Role in Improvement of Patients Nutrition Support

Good nutrition is one of the necessary elements for patients’ well-being (1). In addition to maintaining health, functional independence, adequate nutrition and improving nutritional status are necessary (2). One of the predictive factors of negative clinical outcome in hospitalized patients such as increased hospital stay is bad nutritional status. Rates of under nutrition and malnutrition is higher among hospitalized patients and specially children. Early identification of at-risk patients which are prone to this problem could lead to appropriate interventions (3,4).