Yes, we are seeing it.
I was talking to Ms. Thompson before we started. The reality is that for young nurses now, maybe we've been doing it all wrong. I'm a mature nurse and what we call a “seasoned” nurse. The thing is that maybe we were doing it wrong; they want work-life balance. The decisions they make are geared toward that. For them, they come in to work, and after a year or two they say, “Look, it isn't work-life balance when you get here in the morning and you don't know when you're going home at night.”
I have a code of conduct. It's called “patient abandonment”. If I am not replaced at work, I have to stay there. When you have family responsibilities and you're trying to balance that, what we're seeing is that nurses are leaving the profession or going to aesthetic work or training to do all sorts of other careers. That's why we're seeing the shortage that we're seeing.