Objective To explore the effect of health management combined with early activity nursing intervention based on health as expanding consciousness（HEC）on patients with acute pancreatitis（AP）．Methods Eighty patients with AP admitted to the First People’s Hospital of Nanyang City from January 2020 to January 2023 were selected as the study subjects．They were randomly divided into a control group（n=40）and an observation group（n=40）using a random number table method．Both groups of patients received routine AP nursing care．The control group received early activity nursing intervention,while the observation group received early activity nursing and HEC based health management．The health behavior ability,health promotion behavior,and incidence of complications were observed in both groups．Results After the intervention,both groups of patients had higher scores on the Self Rating Health Behavioral Ability Scale than before the intervention,and the observation group had higher scores than the control group（P<0.05）．The scores of the Health Promotion Lifestyle Scale II for both groups of patients were higher than before intervention,and the scores of the observation group were higher than those of the control group（P<0.05）．The incidence of complications in the observation group（5.00%）was lower than that in the control group（20.00%）．Conclusions Health management based on HEC combined with early activity nursing can effectively improve the health behavior ability of AP patients,promote health behavior,and reduce the occurrence of complications．