Not dead yet: the spectre of nursing human resource shortages.

since the late 1990s, the nursing shortage has occupied the attention of the profession, policy makers and employers (CNA 2009; WHO 2006). In this Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, we have an opportunity to revisit the problem of nursing human resources from the standpoint of labour mobility. I say “revisit” because the problem has been sleeping in Canada, as many decision-makers and policy makers seem to believe that we have addressed this by increasing the number of nursing seats in undergraduate nursing programs.