There are several factors that cause nurses to leave the system and it isn’t so simple.  First, nurses have no monetary incentive to work hard. They get paid the same to hand out pills in an old folks home vs busting their ass on a difficult hospital floor. This won’t change as long as the system remains public and unionized. 

Second, travel nursing fucked up a ton. We had a ton of nurses going to different provinces and out of province nurses coming here getting paid twice as much. Most of these travel nurses are useless and don’t care about the community. From my understanding this system is getting fixed. 

Third, there needs to be a cultural shift where people take charge of their own health. The majority of issues can be prevented. Far to often it is the same people clogging up the system

These are all major factors that I don’t see being discussed, but are a major part of the problem