Objective To understand clinical nursing teachers′ real experience and suggestions regarding teaching supervision of nur-sing students, to analyze the problems existing in teaching supervision, and to provide reference for reform of teaching supervision in teaching hospitals. Methods Using semi-structured interview method, researchers had one-on-one interviews with 11 clinical nur-sing teachers over the issues of teaching supervision of nursing students.Then content analysis method was used to analyze the data. Results Six themes were summarized as follows: teaching supervision was conducive to improving teachers′ managerial ability；supervision from superior levels was not timely；the teachers reported heavy psychological stress；support from the head nurses was inadequate；supervision from superior levels lacked of variety；teacher-in-chief gave suggestions of teaching supervision. Conclusion Clinical teaching teacher has stressfull experience in teaching supervision.There are limitations in current teaching supervision of clinical nursing students.Relevant departments should pay attention to clinical teachers′ psychological state and their suggestions, and take measures to build a supervision system aligned with clinical settings.