Physical examination skills are one component of health assessment and an essential component of nursing care operations. These skills play a critical role in collecting objective data to identify patient problems and care for their needs. As a result, a more accurate assessment leads to a correct nursing diagnosis and increases the quality of nursing care. Thus, teaching physical assessment skills is vital to ensure nurses' competency ،While universities constantly strive to develop competency-based curricula that will prepare new nurses for independent practice, few studies have evaluated the application of physical assessment skills learned during nursing education in the real-world environment of clinical practice. Therefore, the current study aims to assess the barriers in the performance of physical assessment skills among nursing collegian during hospital clinical training.

Study Design: A descriptive study was carried out through the present study in order to achieve the early stated objectives. Study Sample: A probability (Stratified Random) sample of (100) students was included in the present study.

Setting of the Study: The study is conducted in Kufa University / Faculty of Nursing.

Conclusions and Result: The current study indicates that a large number of nursing students face many obstacles in applying physical assessment skills during clinical training in the hospital, which in turn can affect the quality of health care provided to patients.