[ejb999]

Traveling nurses are definitely part of the problem, (why wouldn't someone go for the much higher salary) - but more nurses causes that problem to go away - simple supply and demand.

From the The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) website:

>>>According to AACN’s report on 2021-2022 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing, U.S. nursing schools turned away 91,938 qualified applications (not applicants) from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in 2021 due to insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, classroom space, and clinical preceptors, as well as budget constraints. <<<

Thats almost 100K potential nurses that were qualified to enroll, but there we no slots available for them.

[ftth_finland]

> Traveling nurses are definitely part of the problem, (why wouldn't someone go for the much higher salary)

Sounds more like being part of the solution. More traveling nurses equal more pay.

Eventually things will reach an equilibrium where base pay will rise enough to either attract more nurses back to the profession and/or make it profitable to train more nurses.

[linsomniac]

I understand you are saying that nurses are overworked because of there aren't enough nurses.

I don't think you are understanding that I'm saying that health care administration tends to staff at a level that overworks and undersupports nurses. Which causes many qualified nurses to leave the front-lines for nursing adjacent (one nurse friend is doing CPAP equipment rental) or leaving nursing entirely (my wife).