Nursing human resource is an important part of health human resource and the basis of ensuring nursing quali-ty.Effective nursing performance management can mobilize nurses'subjective initiative,improve work efficiency and enhance nursing human resource management level.At present,the exploration of nursing performance management in public hospitals in China is in the initial stage,and the management mode still refers to the enterprise human resource management mode,without fully considering the particularity of medical work,leading to many problems in the current nursing performance salary manage-ment.Through questionnaire survey,this paper understands the current situation of nursing human resources and performance man-agement methods of comprehensive public hospitals in different regions of the country,analyzes the problems existing in nursing per-formance management and their causes,and puts forward reasonable suggestions for reform direction.In order to provide reference for the reform of nursing performance management in public hospitals,make the distribution of nursing performance much fair and reasonable,improve the quality of nursing service,and promote the sustainable development of nursing management.