Table 2.

The nursing staff’s experiences of caring for malnourished patients at surgical settings in a governmental Saudi Arabian hospital

Nurses’ potentials and barriers to provide proper nutritional care
Main categories	Subcategories
Potentials for nurses to provide good nutrition and physical activity	Good nursing implies providing appropriate health education
	Acknowledging the Mourafiq as a potential resource for the nursing, but also as a burden
Having the ability but not the power to provide good nutrition and physical activity	Inadequate control and lack of influence
	Cultural diversity and lack of dialog
	Views of women’s weight gain in KSA society