Objective To analyze nursing human resources in both private and public community health service centers with SWOT method.Methods Apply SWOT analysis to evaluate the status of nursing human resources and their corresponding work in both private and public community health service centers.Try to find the internal conditions (strengths and weaknesses) and external environments (opportunities and threats),and propose the suggestions of SO,SW,WO and WT.Results Strength of private community health centers was owned younger nurses and more active and the weakness was higher liquidity and less comprehensive knowledge.Public community health centers had more nurses with higher professional titles.And the weakness was that most nurses were just transformed from general hospitals and need time to adapt to community nursing work.Nurses'age,educational qualifications,professional titles and community working contents between the private and public community health service centers were significantly different (P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜ 0.01 ).Conclusions Nurses in bothof private and public community health centers should develop their advantages and make full use of relative public health policies.Community prevention,health care,medical treatment and nursing,rehabilitation,health education and family planning are suggested be put on the strength position and need further development.