ABSTRACT
The classification of nursing in clinical departments is the basis for deepening high-quality nursing service and implementing nursing post management, which is also the key point to improvethe level of nursing management. The objectivity of grading standard and rationality of the method would directly influence the scientificity and operability of human resources allocation and performance assessment scheme. Because of the diversity of departments in the tertiary hospitals and the requirement for departments classification under the trend of meticulous and scientific management of nursing posts, the present paper reviews quantity of literature on the development process, influencing factors, specific methods and applications effects of tertiary hospitals at home and abroad, to provide reference for the classification of clinical departments for tertiary hospitals, and to lay the foundation for the implementation of post management, the optimization of human resource allocation and the establishment of performance assessment mechanism in tertiary hospitals.