There will be a nurs­ing cri­sis in the Unit­ed States by the year 2027, stud­ies say.

This is because nurs­es have been leav­ing their jobs in droves due to burnout, exhaus­tion, and oth­er fac­tors. Since the offi­cial shut­down in March 2020, pro­jec­tions show that the num­ber of nurs­es who have quit will only increase in the next four years. The gov­ern­ment is now inves­ti­gat­ing the impact of the pan­dem­ic on nurs­es’ men­tal health and the fac­tors con­tribut­ing to this cri­sis.

The COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has hit the health­care indus­try hard, and nurs­es have borne the cri­sis. Four years lat­er, as the world is still try­ing to come to terms with the after­math of the pan­dem­ic, it’s becom­ing clear that nurs­es’ men­tal health has tak­en a hit.

Around 100,000 nurs­es have left their jobs dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, lead­ing to a short­age of health­care pro­fes­sion­als and increased pres­sure on those who remained.