Introduction: The clinical learning environment is an interactive network of forces influencing student learning outcomes in the clinical setting. This study examined the clinical challenges faced by the nursing students in the clinical environment and to develop the solutions to overcome the barrier. Material and Methods: The research approach used for this study was quantitative approach and the design selected was descriptive study design. By using convenient sampling technique200 samples of nursing students were selected for this study. Results: This study results shows that among 200 samples 53.25% of the students facing psychological problem in the clinical environment and 52% of the students facing physiological problem in the clinical environment and 47.37% of the students are facing professional related problem and 55.8% of the students are facing other problems in clinical environment. Conclusion: This study shows that there were majority of the students had face difficulties in the clinical environment with the selected demographic variables such as age ,religion, residence, family income, type of family, and interest in nursing.

Keywords: Clinical environment; Challenges.