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How different countries are managing the nursing crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic’s sudden entrance into our lives shook the world. With the influx of sick people needing urgent care, demand for nurses has risen to an all-time high. Even two years after the pandemic's start, we still feel the effects.

Pre-COVID statistics indicate there was already a 5.9 million shortage of nurses in the world. What more of the world after COVID? 

During this troubling time, many countries expressed a need for nurses. Because of this, countries have started to make solving nursing shortages a common priority, but many of them went for different approaches to solving this problem.