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Background: Clinical nursing round is a method of clinical teaching that involves experienced nursing demonstrators instructing nursing students in the presence of a patient, whose condition triggers the learning. Aim: To assess quality of clinical nursing round among nursing demonstrators. Method: the study was conducted at Tanta University, Faculty of Nursing. The participants all (60) nursing demonstrators who are responsible for students training in clinical areas available at time of data collection. Data were collected using two tools. Tool (1) Questionnaire for nursing demonstrators to assess (a) their general knowledge on clinical nursing round, (b) their knowledge about their role during clinical nursing round. Tool (2) Questionnaire to assess nursing demonstrators, performance of their roles during clinical nursing round.. Result and Conclusion: Demonstrators showed low level of performance correlated positively with their low level of knowledge on clinical nursing round. Thus the quality of performing nursing round needs to be improved. Recommendation: Conducting educational and training programs and workshops about clinical nursing round for nursing demonstrators and nursing staff in clinical setting is necessary to improve the quality of performing clinical nursing round.