Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyse the current situation of oriental nursing intervention in local university oriental medicine hospital to provide qualified oriental nursing. Its specific purposes are as follows. 1) To analyse the objective`s necessity to the oriental nursing intervention, knowledge and practice. 2) To analyse the correlation between the oriental nursing intervention, knowledge and practice. Method: The design of the study is a narrative investigation-research. The objectives of the study composed of 288 RNs having more than a three-year-experience, working for the university oriental medicine hospital. The tool of the study comprised of 194 questionares with the reliability of Cronbach`s α=.95. The data were collected from Dec. 11. 2002 to Feb. 20, 2003 and computerized by SPSS program. Result: The necessity of oriental nursing intervention of nurses working in the oriental hospital showed 3.60 measured by 5-scalemeasurement, 2.69 in knowledge and .24 in practice measured by 1-scale-measurement. Conclusion: The oriental nursing intervention on site showed high necessity, moderate knowledge and low practice recommending a continuous education comprised of regular nursing education and in-service program.