Pathology is an important basic course in higher vocational nursing

with a wealth of humanistic education. But in the actual teaching process

the humanistic education is often ignored because of too much basic knowledge teaching. Our teaching and research section used questionnaire to find the gaps between current situation

goal of humanistic education and students' needs. By enhanc-ing teachers' humanistic awareness and discovering the entrance to humanistic education

we targeted to professional ideological education

guided students to pay attention to humanistic education and helped them to cultivate humanistic caring capability

and students all had good evaluation on it. It helped to solve the problem of both teaching and education to students in short time under pres-sure.