The howls of "nursing shortage" are made to entice youngsters into the field in order to drive down wages. When wages drop, people quit to do other things, so w

The howls of "nursing shortage" are made to entice youngsters into the field in order to drive down wages. When wages drop, people quit to do other things, so wages rise. When wages rise, the media shouts "nursing shortage" from the rooftops. As a career, nursing suffers from a huge amount of burnout and COVID led to large numbers of medical professionals being physically attacked for failing to apply horse dewormer as the purveyors of "alternate facts" kept claiming was a magic cure. Many in the medical profession saw friends & coworkers die from COVID, so the sharp wage increase in recent years was an attempt to mitigate a shortage.