Objective: Nursing care is one of the most important components of health care and patient expectation toward nursing care is being rising. Accordingly, patients' expectation needs to be managed adequately in order to improve outcomes and decrease liability through their perception. To improve the outcome based on the expectation of patients, we need to consider patients' perception to the care they received. So this study aims to identifies the perceptions toward nursing care and their associated factors.

Result: From a total of 281 admitted patients 151 (53.7%) were females; 136 (48.4%) were found in the age group of 21-30 years with mean age of 30 (11 ± SD) years. The mean score of overall perception were 62.6 ± 17.9 (95% CI 60.79-64.37). Among all 154 (54.8%) participants had poor perception to nursing care. Occupation, ward and expectation had association with perception. Patient's level of perception towards nursing care was poor (54.7%) and ward where patients admitted, expectation of patients, occupation of patients and duration of hospital stay were significantly associated with patients' perception. So that health institutions and nurses should focus on perception of their clients.

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