Mini clinical evaluation exercise ( mini-CEX ) is an educational and assessable tool to evaluate the clinical skills among resident doctors .An examiner directly examines an examinee and the evaluate the process including history collection , physical examination , and the communication skills with the patients , diagnosis and treatment .This evaluation method is widely used for its convenience , time saving, and high availability.It is also applied to student nurses assessment but arises some problems during the practice at present.The main problems include inappropriate application without items adjustment , absence of the marking criterion establishment , and the non-standard teacher training system .This paper is mainly focus on the analysis of the existing problems , in order to provide references for further investigation and application of mini-CEX in the nursing education field .