Malnutrition is faulty or inadequate nutritional status and considered as one of the main growing issues around the world. It has been demonstrated in several studies that nurses have limited nutritional knowledge and give a low priority to assessing and monitoring a patient’s nutritional status. The purpose of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among nurses in west bank toward nutritional status regarding geriatric patients, Find out if there is a relationship between demographic data and knowledge, attitude of nurses towards the nutritional status of the elderly and Find out if there is a relationship between demographic data and practice of nurses towards the nutritional status of the elderly . Research design : A cross-sectional descriptive study was used to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among 150 nurses toward nutritional status regarding geriatric patients, Data were collected using a structured self-administered questionnaire have 27 items, Regarding inferential statistics, the Independent t-test and One Way ANOVA were used to assess the differences between demographic variables in terms of knowledge/attitude and practice mean scores. Results: A total of 76.4 % percent of the nurses had adequate sufficient knowledge and attitude, 23.6% had inadequate knowledge and attitude, and 81% had good practice toward nutritional status among elderly, while 19% had poor practice. A significant difference was found between gender in terms of practice (p=<0.001). There are no significant differences found between age group (p=0.732), gender (p= 0.591), experience (p=0.890) and level of education (p=0.286) in terms of knowledge/attitude score. Furthermore, no significant differences were found between age group (p=0.943), experience (p=0.858) and level of education (p=0.372) in terms of knowledge/attitude score. Conclusion: The nurses showed sufficient knowledge and attitude towards the nutritional status of the elderly, in addition to good practice. More and stronger studies on this subject during the coming period must be conducted to include all nurses and other hospital workers and get accurate results. Recommendations:

Increase the number of training courses and workshops for nurses on nutrition care for the elderly, to enhance their knowledge, attitude, and practice in this field. Increase the number of dietitians in hospitals and clinics, to provide support and guidance for nurses in providing nutritional care for elderly patients.

 INDEXTERMS: Knowledge, practice, Attitude, nutritional status, nurse)