Abstract: Objective: To analyze the paper writing/publication status and training demands of undergraduate clinical nurses.Methods: The paper writing/publication status and training demands of 77 undergraduate clinical nurses were investigated with a self designed questionnaire. Results: There was a significant difference of paper writing/publication status in undergraduate nurses with different working years and different professional titles (P<0.05). The top 3 subjective obstacles were difficulties related to topic selection,information analysis and data collection. The top 3 objective obstacles included poor clinical nursing research environment; work strain, and lack of time and energy. Sixty three (81.9%) clinical nurses agreed that it was necessary to retake a research training course, 73 (94.9%) clinical nurses were willing to attend the training. The training needs included topic selection, application of statistic software and writing skills. Conclusion: In order to improve undergraduate clinical nurses' paper writing/publication ability, several actions would be helpful, such as developing good reading habit, accumulating cases,continuous training on nursing research, establishing nursing research group, and setting up a incentive mechanism.