Objective To establish a hospice care training system for nurses in general hospitals and evaluate its implementation effects, and to explore a new path for hospice care education. Methods The nurses from 7 clinical departments in the First Affiliated Hospital of He'nan University of Chinese Medicine from September 2017 to June 2018 were selected by convenience sampling with 24 nurses from each department and randomly divided into the general training group (12 for every department) and in-depth training group (12 for every department) . Based on the classic education theory, the nurse hospice care training system for general hospital was established from five aspects including goal, content, method, management and teachers in the in-depth training group and the general training group received the training according to hospice care nursing plan implementation rules of the First Affiliated Hospital of He'nan University of Chinese Medicine. The two groups were compared in terms of the training effects. Results After training, in the in-depth training group, the scores of theoretical assessment and skill assessment of hospice care of nurses in the 7 departments were all higher than those in general training group, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05) . Conclusions The general hospital nurse hospice care training system can effectively improve the employees' knowledge reserve and skills level of hospice care; the strengthening of the construction of hospice care training system is important to guarantee the qualified hospice care nursing team building and to improve the quality of hospice care services. Key words: Hospice care; Training system; Effect evaluation