Background & Aim: Awareness of nurses’ opinions, as key members of the health care team, can have a significant role in identifying executive barriers, promotion planning and patient education process. The aim of this study was to identify the implementation barriers in patient training from the view point of nurses and nurse managers in the hospitals affiliated to Ahvaz University of medical science.
 Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out on 100 nurses and nurse managers, by convenience sampling method in the hospitals affiliated to Ahvaz medical university in 2012. Data were collected by a questionnaire which included 26 questions in two parts personal specifications and barriers to the patient training through self – reported method. Then the data were analyzed with descriptive statistic an Chi square, Fisher, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis and T- test.
 Results: The most important barriers to the patient training program are as follows; lack of proportionality between the number of patients and number of nurses (92%), time pressure and excessive workload (89%), lack of attention and adequate support from the managers (75%), lack of coordination by other members of the healthcare team with nurses (62%), and the lack of written laws in patient education (58%). There was no difference between the views of nurses and nurse managers (P>0.05).
 Conclusion: To enhance and improve patient educational programs, it is essential to minimize the barriers that are more prevalent.TheCoordination between responces of administrators and nurses suggests that nurse managers are aware of the issues regarding their personnals working environment in relation to the patient's education.