The purpose and basic spirit of education in China is to cultivate talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique. To improve the overall quality of the educated, we should start from the following aspects: strengthening ideological and political education and improving students' ideological and moral quality. Strengthen scientific and cultural education and improve students' scientific and cultural quality. Strengthen physical education and aesthetic education to improve students' physical and mental quality. Cultivate students' innovative spirit and practical ability. Provide diversified education for students. Strengthen the construction of teachers and improve their quality.

Nursing education can effectively promote students' physical and mental development in the following ways:

First, nursing education should emphasize open teaching, encourage students to actively participate, actively explore and accept new knowledge, stimulate students' interest in learning, discover self-worth, cultivate students' self-confidence and promote physical and mental development.

Second, nursing education should pay attention to two-way communication and encourage students to actively express their ideas and opinions, so as to cultivate students' independent thinking ability and practical ability, enhance their sense of responsibility and promote physical and mental development.

Third, nursing education should adhere to practical teaching, so that students can deepen their understanding of knowledge in practical operation, improve learning effect, cultivate students' innovative ability, and let students experience success in practice, thus promoting physical and mental development.

Fourthly, nursing education should attach importance to emotional education, cultivate students' good feelings, enhance students' self-esteem, improve students' self-cognitive ability, enable students to better integrate into society, realize self-worth, and then promote students' physical and mental development.