Through analyzing the influencing factors of nursing humanistic care ability, this paper discusses the countermeasures of cultivating the humanistic care ability of nursing interns.

Nursing interns between September 2018 and April 2019 in Dalian Maternal and Child Health Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University were chosen, two questionnaires were conducted at the beginning of the internship and at the end of the internship after the cultivation of humanistic care ability, 344 of them participated in the initial survey, 331 people took part in the end of the survey.

The overall average score of nursing interns at early stage of nursing interns was 181.31±22.81, while the score at the final stage was 187.73±18.23, the difference was statistically significant (t value was 4.03, P<0.05); the score of each dimension which included understanding, courage and patience was 71.66±8.83, 59.49±9.59, 56.59±5.33 respectively, lower than the standard of foreign countries which were respectively 80.22±7.56, 65.25±11.57, 63.11±4.19. The abilities of humanistic care of Chinese nursing interns were lower than those at abroad. Gender (X₁) , relationship with mother (X₃) and relationship with classmates (X₄) are influential factors of humanistic care abilities for nursing interns (t value was 2.448, 2.784, 3.189, P<0.05).

The implementation of cultivating humanistic care abilities for nursing interns can be based on creating medical humanities atmosphere in hospital, improving teachers′ humanistic are abilities and strengthening nurse′ professional identity and sense of responsibility.

Nursing interns; Humanistic care; Professional identity