Objective To explore the concordance of nursing grades which are ordered by the nurses and the standards of nursing grade and the inpatients' needs. Methods 120 inpatients were rated using the three methods respectively, which were the nurses' order, the standards of musing grade and Bartbel index, and then compare the concordance of the nursing grades rated by the three. Results Then nurses' order was of well concordance with the standards of nursing grade and Barthel index,and the Kappa value was 0.862,0.611,P<0.01,respectively. Conclusions The nurses' order accords with the standards of nursing grade and the patients' needs, is helpful to develop the clinical work, and should be spreaded and exploited.