Abstract: Objective: To analyze the causes of 89 nursing adverse events, and to put forward the effective preventive countermeasures. Methods: Nursing Department of a special hospital in Xinjiang collected the adverse events in 2014 and analyzed it retrospectively. The occurrence of adverse events of nurses with different titles, different occur time and different outcomes were statistically analyzed. Results: The occurrence of adverse effect of infusion was the highest (58.4%), and the junior nurses are more likely to lead to the occurrence of adverse events (93.3%). Conclusion: The analysis of adverse events could provide important information for nursing safety management, especially for preventable adverse events, furthest avoid or reduce the occurrence of nursing adverse events, promote nursing adverse events to optimum outcome, guarantee the patients' safety, and avoid nursing disputes.