ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate and analyse the current situation and the factors impacting nursing soft skills in order to provide targeted advice to improve students′ nursing soft skills .Methods Totally 1 000 student nurses were investigated by the nursing soft skills scale and the self‐designed questionnaire .Results First ,there was no differences between the nursing soft skill of students and the national new nurses(P> 0 .05) .But the students′ organizational management and cognitive skills were lower than that of national new nurses(P< 0 .05) .Second ,class leader ,familiarity and fancy for nursing science were the main factors impac‐ting nursing soft skills(P< 0 .05) .Third ,the students′ organizational management and cognitive skills had an increasing trend fol‐lowing the extent of familiarity and fancy for nursing science(P< 0 .05) .Conclusion Education management institution and nursing schools should try to make some reform mearsure to improve students′ nursing soft skills .