Objective:To study the effect of nursing English teaching combining with humanistic care educa-tion. Methods:Six classes of nursing students of 2011 grade were chosen randomly by sampling as control and ex-perimental group. The control group used the traditional teaching method without humanistic care education. The experimental group combined humanistic care education with nursing English teaching. Nursing students' humanistic caring ability scale and self-designed questionnaire were used to compare the teaching effects of the two groups. Results:The humanistic caring ability of experimental group was higher than that of the control group ( P<0 . 05 ) . The experimental group gives high evaluation on the effect of nursing English combining with humanistic care edu-cation. Conclusion:Nursing English combining with humanistic care education helps to improve nursing students' humanistic concern consciousness and enhance their humanistic caring ability.