Abstract: Objective To explore the practice teaching effect of basic nursing with video focusing on nursing students spread through WeChat platform. Methods After literature review and interviews with clinical teachers, a nursing public platform with two first-level columns was developed which covered the existing problems in nursing operation, learning need and specific knowledge points. Two classes of nursing students were selected from a nursing school by convenient sampling method. The control group (n=92) received traditional teaching and the experimental group (n=88) received traditional teaching based on the developed public platform. At the end of the semester, the differences in students' performance in skill examination, self-learning ability between the two groups were compared. Results After intervention, the performance in skill examination of nursing students in the experimental group were higher than those in the control group（P<0.05）. There was no statistical significance in terms of the scores of self-learning ability of nursing students in the experimental group and in the control groupbefore the intervention（71.33±9.78 VS 70.15±10.97, t=0.484, P=0.630）. The scores of self-learning ability of nursing students in the experimental group were higher than those in the control group after the intervention, and the differences were statistically significant (72.65±9.64 VS 77.73±6.77, t=4.073, P<0.001). Conclusion In the practice teaching of basic nursing, WeChat public platform-assisted teaching can effectively improve nursing skills and self-learning ability of nursing students.

Key words: basic nursing, practice teaching, WeChat, nursing student, nursing operation