Purpose: Study on the current situation of nursing explanation. Provide suggestions for nursing explanation to improve its efficiency. Method: Stratified randomly select 8 nursing staffs and patients to start nursing explanation investigation. Result: nursing staffs and patients are both positive with nursing explanation, patients have lower sense of identity than nursing staffs, however, nursing staffs believe that improve communication skills are crucial to nursing explanation, besides, patients’ personal reasons also have impacts on nursing explanation. Conclusion: Nursing staffs should keep improving their comprehensive quality and practice nursing explanation according to patients’ personal factors to improve communication effect and satisfy patients’ needs to nursing explanation.