Background: Globally, the most recognized approach for avoidance and management of illness or any health
problems is the health education. Nurses as health educators are necessitated to be equipped with fit health teaching
skills, particularly, with elderly clients. Gerontological nurses are confronting many difficulties during conduction of
health education process with elders. Consequently, the current descriptive explanatory study is established Aim: to
investigate and determine clinical training health education barriers with elderly: nursing students' perspective
Research design: A descriptive explanatory research design was used in the present study. Settings: at the
gerontological nursing department, Faculty of nursing, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. Sample: A
convenient sample 238 nursing students who enrolled in Gerontological nursing department is including in the study
sample. Tools: Health Education Barriers Questionnaire (HEBQ) was employed in data collection. The results:
revealed that the nursing students perceived many barriers in themselves, elderly patients and their families,
healthcare staff and clinical training area. Also, there is a statistical significance difference in between the perceived
health education barriers in clinical training with elderly and nursing students' gender and their clinical training
specialty. Conclusion: the majority of nursing students perceived multiple barriers related to themselves , elderly
patients' characteristics , elderly patients and their families' un-cooperation and barriers in relation to the healthcare
staff and clinical area Recommendations: the current study is to ensure collaboration and cooperation between all
academic nursing departments and other academic and non-academic healthcare disciplines to determine and
overcoming the health education barriers among nursing students with elderly and other types of patients. Likewise,
a fit well designed plan for health education clinical training with elderly patients should be developed. Further
studies are mainly: repetition of the study with elderly patients themselves to determine the barriers from their
perspectives, and develop standard or policy for health education role in any health care facility.