Abstract: Objective: To translate the English version of Spiritual Care Competence Scale (SCCS) into Chinese and to test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of SCCS, and to explore its applicability in China. Methods: After receiving the author's approval, we translated and back-translate the scale, and adjusted the Chinese version of the scale for cultural adaptation. The questionnaire was distributed to 526 nurses in three tertiary hospitals in Changsha, Hunan Province by convenient sampling method. The reliability and validity of the scale were analyzed. Results: Item analysis indicated each item in the critical ratio was significant, and the correlation coefficients between each item and the total scores were higher than 0.5. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) indicated that Chinese version of SCCS consisted of 2 factors, which explained 77.43% of the total variance. The factor loadings of 22 items were all higher than 0.4. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that 6 factor model was better than the 2 factor model. The Cronbach's α of the whole scale and each dimension were 0.974, 0.939, 0.955, 0.941, 0.902, 0.956, and 0.949. The split-half reliability of the whole scale and each dimension were 0.892, 0.930, 0.928, 0.929, 0.904, 0.941, and 0.950. Conclusion: The Chinese version of SCCS has good reliability and validity and could be used as a tool to measure the spiritual care competence of nurses.