Knowledge
Some nurses reported lacking sufficient knowledge about physical activity, smoking cessation, and even more notable, about specific diet advice in order to provide adequate lifestyle counseling. They also explained that it is a dietician's task to give specific diet advice to patients. However, some patients are not willing to see a dietician. In such cases, the nurse felt a need to give the diet advice to the patient. "Some patients have had bad experiences with dieticians and refuse to go to them. This means that I have to get down to the diet advice. I can tell the patients what is good or bad for them, but for specific diet advice they still have to go to the dietician." (N2) knowledge deficiency felt masks a shortage of coordination capability with dietician and of communication skills of convincing explanation to patients.