ABSTRACT | OBJECTIVE: To describe the knowledge
of nursing professionals about the evaluation of residual
gastric volume. METHODS: Descriptive research with
a quantitative-qualitative cross-sectional approach
performed through questionnaire application to 60 nursing
professionals involved in direct patient care in diet therapy.
The data were collected in April 2015. RESULTS: 69.2%
of nurses and 72.3% of nursing technicians considered to
have little knowledge about residual gastric volume. The
main difficulty found by the nursing team to verify the
residual volume was the work overload, followed by lack
of orientation or training. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The
professionals demonstrate knowledge of the importance
of the verification of the residual gastric volume, but the
practice of the procedure in the assistance to the patients
in the use of diet therapy is made difficult by the little
existing information about the parameters
