Objective To construct an evaluation index system of clinical nursing teaching quality suitable for teaching hospitals. Methods An evaluation index system draft for clinical nursing teaching quality was formed based on CIPP evaluation model, literature review and semi-structured interviews, and then a two-round Delphi study was conducted among 29 experts to improve the draft. Results The response rates of the 2 rounds expert consultations were 96.67% and 100%, the expert authority coefficients were 0.894 and 0.897, and the Kendall coordination coefficients were 0.331 and 0.415 (P<0.01). The final evaluation index system for nursing clinical teaching quality consisted of 4 first-level indexes (teaching context evaluation, teaching resource evaluation, teaching process evaluation, teaching result evaluation), 13 second-level indexes and 43 third-level indexes. Conclusion The constructed evaluation index system for nursing clinical teaching quality based on CIPP evaluation model can be used as an evaluation tool for teaching hospitals.