Objective Developing the investigation on the condition of the nurses’ patience to provide advice to improve nurses’ patience and humanistic caring ability. Methods The nurses and patients were asked to do survy of the nurses’ patience by the questionnaire we designed.Results The investigation on nurses and patients showed that nurses made a high evaluation on their patience while the patient made a much lower evaluation on it.The level of nurses’ patience varied in different medical departments and the emergency department is the lowest one .(P<0.05)Above all, working pressure was the main obstacle of the patience. What patients paid the most attention to was the manners of nurses.Conclusion Nurses should strengthen their congnition of humanistic connotation and humanistic caring ability so that they can communicate with patients in a patient way. Hospital managers should learn to allocate the resources in a reasonable way to reduce pressure for nurses.