Objective To observe the clinical efficiency of nasal jejunal nutrition in children with acute pancreatitis and explore the effective nursing. Methods The clinical characteristics of 116 children with acute pancreatitis from February 2013 to May 2015 in our medical center were retrospectively analyzed. Based on nutritional support, the patients were divided into two groups: the control group consisted of 58 patients receiving oral feeding after the recovery of bowel function, and the experiment group consisted of 58 patients with nasal jejunal nutrition. And all the patients were treated with special care on case-by-case. The efficiency was then compared between the two groups. Results Compared with the control group, the length of hospital stay, cost of care, the incidence of complications, the surgical proportion and the mortality were significantly decreased in the experiment group (P<0.05). Conclusion In the children with acute pancreatitis, application of nasal jejunal nutrition is more effective, leading to decrease incidences of complications and surgical proportion, shorten the length of hospital stay, reduce patients' cost, and finally help rehabilitation.