Introduction:Nursing process leads to the coordination of nursing services but today we see that this process is not applied at clinical fields, therefore this study aimed to determine the nursing process barriers from the view of the nurses and nurse managers in surgical wards in imam reza hospital at kermanshah.

Method:This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 90 nurses (73 nurses and 17 nursing managers) of surgical wards of Imam Reza hospital in Kermanshah city in 2015 . Data collection tool was nursing process barriers questionnaire that its validity by view of experts of this field and its reliability with Cronbach's alpha 0/84 and 0/86 was confirmed. Data using SPSS version 17 and chi-square test and Fisher's exact test in significant level of 0/05 were analyzed.

Results: The lack of sufficient information about concept of the nursing process was the most important individual barriers from the view of nurses (72.6%) and nursing managers (88.2%) respectively. The most important management barriers from the view of nurses were lack of enough time for doing the nursing process due to excessive number of patients (93.2) and from the view of nursing managers were submitting non-nursing duties to the nurses (88.2%.(

Conclusion: Despite the nurses are faced with several obstacles to provide nursing process, nurses are expected to increase their knowledge about the concepts of the nursing process more than before, and nursing managers should remove administrative obstacles that exist in management aspects, in addition the managers should provide practical and functional education to create a clear understanding of the concept of the nursing process.