I’ve been in nursing for more than a quarter of a century, and it’s been around that entire time. The nursing shortage is something that will continue through the years, according to all the projections that I see.
Now, COVID has impacted nursing, but it depends on who you’re asking what the impact is going to be. There were probably a lot of nurses close to retirement age who would have stuck around in full-time positions considerably longer, but maybe with COVID now they’ve decided to go into travel or contract assignments to get out of the full-time stressors that nursing holds.