High pay is ending, some US traveling nurses are joining other nurses in leaving the profession altogether.

The gold rush for travel nurses is over. Now what will they do? During the Covid pandemic, nurses tripled their pay by moving from job to job. But the short-lived boom was a temporary fix for a long-term decline in the nursing profession. NBC News

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The short-lived travel nurse boom was a temporary fix for a long-term decline in the profession that predates the pandemic. According to a report from McKinsey & Co., the United States may see a shortage of up to 450,000 registered nurses within three years barring aggressive action by health care providers and the government to recruit new people. Nurses are quitting, and hospitals are struggling to field enough staff to cover shifts.

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