Objective Through utilizing the existing human resources and establishing stratified management modes based on the responsibility of the leader of nursing teamwork to reduce nursing de-fects and nursing disputes, and improve the quality of emergency care. Methods Nurses in the depart-ment of emergency were stratified, and the stratified management modes based on the responsibility of the leader of nursing teamwork was implemented. Then the results underwent analysis and feedback through assessment. Results Quality of care, the satisfaction degree of patients, doctors and the relevant depart-ments before and after the implementation had statistical significance by χ2 test. The cases of nursing de-fects reduced from 5 in 2005 to 1 in 2007 and nursing disputes reduced from 5 in 2005 to 0 in 2007.The intact rate of first aid materials increased from 98% in 2005 to 100% in 2007. Conclusions The strati-fied management modes can ensure that the quality of emergency care implemented in every hour and link, and can reduce the nursing defects and disputes, increase patient satisfaction degree and improve quality of care. So the stratified management modes are worthy of clinical reference in emergency department.