Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the effects of a narrative nursing training program for clinical nurses. Methods: From September to October 2019, 56 clinical nurses from a tertiary Grade A hospital in Nanchang were selected as research participants for a narrative nursing training program. The training content included a total of five themes: the origin of narrative nursing, the core technology of narrative nursing, the carrier of narrative nursing, the inspiration and changes brought by narrative nursing, and the summary and evaluation. The training program adopted interactive teaching, created simulated situations, and carried out practice activities such as role-playing, reflective writing, and expressive art related to "narration". The Narrative Competence Scale (NCS) and the feedback questionnaire were used to evaluate the effects of clinical nurses' narrative nursing training. Results: After the training, the average total scores of clinical nurses' medical narrative ability and the average scores of each dimension were significantly higher than those before the training, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.001). The analysis of the feedback questionnaire showed that 96.43% of clinical nurses believed that the training program was scientific and the training content was practical, which was helpful to guide the narrative nursing practice. Conclusion: The narrative nursing training program can improve the narrative nursing ability of clinical nurses.

Key words: narrative nursing; nurse; in-service training