There are fears the nursing shortage is about to get much worse.
Nearly one-in-three nursing students drop-out before qualifying, due to financial pressure, family responsibilities and other factors made worse by Covid-19.
At the same time, health boards and rest homes are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to attract nurses from overseas to fill an estimated 4000 vacancies.
Now New South Wales has announced it will pump more than $4 billion into recruiting healthcare workers.
Nurses Organisation director Kerri Nuku spoke to Corin Dann.
