Objective: To explore the application value of nursing risk management inDepartment of general surgery in a hospital room. Methods: This paper studies the Department of general surgery nursing in our hospital, 2012 year old nursing modefor the control group, while the 2013 year implementation of nursing riskmanagement as the observation group, compared two groups of time satisfaction of patients, nurses, nursing quality, the excellent rate of incidence of nursing erroretc.. Results: Patients with nursing risk management in Department of general surgery, wards, nurses, nursing quality, the excellent rate of patient satisfactionand the incidence of nursing error was significantly better than the control group,the difference was significant (P < 0.05), with statistical significance. Conclusion:the implementation of Department of general surgery nursing work in the effective nursing risk management measures significantly improve the quality of holistic nursing in Department of general surg