Objective: Comprehending the development treand of nursing safety management in China, in order to provide reference for further research. Methods: Search for papaers published in 2000-2011 related to nursing safety management in China from Wanfang Data, Chongqing Weipu, CNKI and other important databases, then use the bibliometric method, network measurement method, content analysis method to statistics and analysis the data. Results: 535 papers of nursing safety management were retrieved, respectively from 8 Chinese nursing journals. From 2000 to 2011, the number of papers of nursing safety management in China increased linearly. but only 99 papers have been supported by the fund project. Most authors come from economically developed areas, such as Beijing , Guangdong , Jiangsu, Hubei, Zhejiang, Shanghai and so on. The main research areas included patient safety management, nursing technical safety, safety strategy development, safety culture, occupational protection and so on. Conclusions: The research on nursing safety management in China has made great progress, with wide research areas and rich research contents during 2000 to 2011. However, there are many problems to be improved, such as the development of nursing safety management in various regions is not balanced, the lack of nursing research project support, nursing safety management research cross-professional cooperation and international cooperation is not enough, the results of nursing safety management research exchange is not enough and so on.