To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the willingness of nurses who work in the community to be vaccinated for pandemic influenza and our results confirmed that their acceptability of influenza A (H1N1) vaccination is low. A strength of our study is our response rate of 67% which is higher than similar report conducted in Hong Kong with a response rate of 28% [18] . A limitation of our study is that we have only documented nurses' intentions of when a vaccine is available and not the actual uptake of vaccination. Furthermore, all data from this study were from self-reports and recall bias, such recalling influenza vaccination in the previous year, might have occurred. A possible contributory factor e.g. recent episode of influenza-like illness which may influence the willingness of vaccination was not enquired. Our analysis of results was limited by the relatively small sample size in nurses who are part of the Community Nursing Service in Hong Kong with no information available on non respondents. However, our results are similar to recent studies conducted in hospital healthcare workers [13] and members of professional nursing organizations [17] in Hong Kong.