To share the teaching mode and requirements of nursing rotation in general thoracic surgical intensive care unit (ICU) , and to evaluate the effect of modular teaching in thoracic surgery ICU on improving the specialized nursing ability of rotating new nurses by multiple perspectives.

Nurses who were newly recruited to the ward of general thoracic surgery from 1 January 2018 to 31 May 2021 were selected as the research subjects. Those who had rotated in the thoracic surgery ICU at first for 3 months and then worked in the general ward were included in the observation group, while those who worked in the general ward at first and did not rotate were included in the control group. The teaching content of rotating nurses included three modules: routine nursing module, disease process nursing module, emergency and critical care nursing module. The teaching methods included clinical operation and nursing document writing. The nursing quality of new nurses was evaluated at the fifth month of employment. The evaluation indexes included thoracic surgery nursing ability evaluation, nursing adverse events, patient satisfaction, doctor satisfaction and nursing satisfaction.

The evaluation of thoracic surgery nursing ability, patient satisfaction, doctor satisfaction and nursing satisfaction in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group (all P<0.05) . The number of nursing adverse events in the observation group was lower than that in the control group, but the difference was not statistically significant (P=0.170) .

Through the rotation of thoracic surgery ICU, new thoracic surgery nurses could quickly improve the nursing level of thoracic surgery and reduced the occurrence of nursing adverse events.