The proposal and promotion of situational teaching method plays a very important role in nursing teaching. Due to the high requirement of nursing for students' practical ability, a lot of practical teaching is arranged in traditional nursing teaching, but the effect is not satisfactory. Some students’ initiative was suppressed and their actual participation was not high in the field practice in the hospital. The situational teaching method can effectively solve this problem. This paper will analyze the application of situational teaching method in nursing, and focus on the teaching concept and common teaching methods of situational teaching.