Effective narrative turn of doctor-patient communication can strengthen the trust between doctors and patients, close the doctor-patient relationship, and reduce the contradiction between doctors and patients. Health humanities, as a more inclusive, open, and application-oriented discipline, has been gradually recognized by academic circles. Narrative medicine, as an interdisciplinary subject of humanities education and medicine, plays an important role in cultivating medical students’ narrative ability. 30 medical staff in a general hospital were selected as the research object by questionnaire survey. General information questionnaire and medical narrative ability scale were used to investigate and multiple linear regression was used to analyze the influencing factors of medical students’ medical narrative ability. The results show that the standardized regression coefficients of communication content, empathy, and communication results are 0.439, 0.367, and 0.138, respectively. The total score of medical narrative ability of medical students is 133, and the average score of items is 4.87, which is at a low level. In conclusion, the medical narrative ability of medical students is at a low level, and nursing managers should take targeted intervention measures to improve the medical narrative ability of medical students.