Objective To identify the barriers to psychological detachment among junior nurses, and to provide references for helping nurses to recover psychological resources and optimize the construction of the nursing team.Methods Semi-structured in-depth interviews of 15 junior nurses were conducted according to descriptive phenomenological design.Content analysis was performed to summarize and extract themes from the interview texts.Results A total of 3 themes and 10 sub-themes were identified:personal factors (strong demand for career development, emotional exhaustion, limited role transformation); environmental factors (lack of organizational support, work-family conflict, immature management system); occupational factors (heavy workload, rigorous work requirements, complex interpersonal relationships, high risk of occupational exposure).Conclusion Junior nurses face many obstacles to psychological detachment.Nurses should establish correct cognition of psychological detachment, and promote indivi-dual role transformation.Managers are advised to create a supportive work environment, reasonably arrange work content, and increase organizational support through multiple channels to reduce the psychological burden on nurses.