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Objective:To explore the status of job burnout among clinical nursing teachers in different depart-ments, in order to provide reference for the nursing education management .Methods:The questionnaire of Maslach Burnout Inventory ( MBI) of revised Chinese Version was distributed to 535 clinical nursing teachers .Results:The incidence of job burnout was 48 .3%, while the incidences with mild , moderate and severe job burnout accounted for 18 .9%, 15 .7%, 9 .3%respectively .Clinical nursing teachers in different departments have diffrences on oc-cupation actions .Clinical nursing teachers in the operation room revealed a significant greater personal accomplish -ment, but the emergency department scored lower .The teachers in emergency department scored higher on emotion-al exhaustion than those in other departments , and the teachers in oncology department is the secondary in scores of emotional exhaustion .The scores of the teachers in oncology department were the highest on depersonalization among all the departments,while the teachers in infection department is at the secondary place .Conclusion:The clinical nursing teachers'job burnout should be paid attention to .Strategies including intervention by nursing education management and teachers'learning and training should be taken to reduce the damage of physical and mental health caused by burnout and increase the clinical care and teaching quality .