Objective:To analyze the effect of traditional Chinese medicine emotional nursing combined with scenario-based cognitive function training in patients with cognitive impairment secondary to stroke, providing a practical reference for improving patients′cognitive function, anxiety and depressive mood, ability to live and quality of life.Methods:This study was a quasi experimental study. The 106 patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) admitted to Zhuhai People′s Hospital (Jinan University Affiliated Zhuhai Hospital) between January 2019 and October 2021 were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly divided into the control group and the observation group (53 cases in each group). The control group used conventional cognitive function training and the observation group used traditional Chinese medicine emotional care combined with scenario-based cognitive function training. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scores, Mini-Mental State Examination(MMSE) scores, Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) scores, Self-ratingAnxiety Scale (SAS) scores, self-care rate (assessed byActivity of Daily Living scale, ADL), and Generic Quality of Life Inventory-74(GQOLI-74) scores were compared between the two groups before and after the intervention.Results:After the intervention, the MoCA and MMSE scores of the observation group were 24.34 ± 2.18 and 25.98 ± 4.16, which were higher than the 20.41 ± 3.16 and 22.18 ± 4.21 in the control group, the differences were significant ( t = - 7.45, - 4.67, both P<0.05). The SDS and SAS scores of the observation group were 24.46 ± 3.46 and 27.18 ± 3.31, which were lower than the 39.15 ± 4.15 and 39.87 ± 4.70 in the control group, the differences were significant ( t = 16.07, 19.79, both P<0.05). The self-care rate in the observation group was 94.34% (50/53) higher than 81.13% (43/53) in the control group, the difference was significant ( χ2 = 4.30, P<0.05). The quality of life in the four dimensions of physical life, social functioning, psychological functioning, and somatic functioning in the observation group were (85.88 ± 4.14), (71.85 ± 4.10), (82.77 ± 3.44) and (88.51 ± 4.79) points, which were higher than the (73.48 ± 4.11), (66.48 ± 3.57), (75.49 ± 3.80) and (79.54 ± 4.60) points in the control group, the differences were significant ( t values were - 15.48 - - 7.19, all P<0.05). Conclusions:Traditional Chinese medicine emotional nursing combined with scenario-based cognitive function training can improve cognitive function, anxiety and depression in patients with cognitive impairment secondary to stroke, and improve patients′ability to live and quality of life level.