The overall characteristics of TCM nursing technology are integrity, humanistic care and distinct connotation of national culture, and its advantages are flexible and diverse clinical nursing such as dialectical nursing, emotion, medication, diet and health care.

Emphasize that the human body is an organic whole, and heaven and man are one. Urgent is to protect the standard, and slow is to protect the foundation.

Pay attention to the influence of emotion on diseases.

Pay attention to diet conditioning.

Pay attention to three factors (due to people, time and place). Pay attention to preventive health care and rehabilitation nursing.

The characteristic principle of TCM nursing specialty is to guide nursing work with the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment of TCM. According to different conditions, the nursing principles such as "strengthening body resistance and eliminating evil", "suit the remedy to the case", "preventing the same disease from different aspects", "strengthening body resistance and eliminating evil", "adapting measures to local conditions according to people's circumstances" and "putting prevention first" were applied to formulate corresponding nursing measures. With more and more attention paid to Chinese medicine, more and more people use Chinese medicine nursing for disease treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, health preservation and so on, with broad prospects.

At present, in more than 2 100 TCM medical institutions in China, there are more than 60,000 technicians with technical positions above nurses engaged in TCM nursing, which has become an indispensable professional team for the development of TCM. Among them, a group of TCM nursing technical backbones with rich clinical experience and certain scientific research ability and management level have emerged. The professional education and on-the-job education of TCM nursing have also begun to take shape, so the development prospect of TCM nursing specialty is very considerable.