During a pandemic, nurses are not working.

The recent flu pandemic has made it worse that hospitals and nursing homes don't have enough staff. Because of this, nurses have been having panic attacks, which has caused some of them to quit their jobs. David Coppin, who is the CEO of IntelyCare, started the company. Coppin thinks that the problem is caused by institutional failure.

Even though most nurses didn't get training on how to deal with biological threats, some have quit their jobs to protect themselves. They shouldn't be called traitors, though. Thousands of nurses feel unsafe in their current jobs, including those who work in critical care. More than 3,000 nurses are represented by the New York State Nurses Association. They recently filed three lawsuits against the state health department and two hospitals over this issue.

Many people in the U.S. have been affected by the lack of healthcare workers, according to national surveys. For example, 79 percent of healthcare workers said that the lack of workers has made their jobs harder. Some people also said that coworkers had already quit their jobs because they couldn't get the COVID-19 vaccine. But National Nurses United, the largest nurses' union, says that there are enough registered nurses in the country to meet the needs of all hospitals.

But a special Morning Consult report found that many health care workers have quit their jobs because of the pandemic. As of February, the swine flu pandemic had caused close to 500,000 people to lose their jobs or quit. During the pandemic, more than half of the people who quit their jobs had thought about doing so.

The pandemic has taken over the United States' health care system. Hospitals are having a hard time taking care of so many people. Because of this, the nursing staff is stressed and tired. Many nurses quit because of high levels of stress, high pressure at work, and a lack of support from managers. Many also said they wanted to find a job that paid better, gave them more freedom, and helped them move up in their careers.

In addition to the COVID epidemic, the delta version of the virus has continued to spread through hospitals all over the country. Because of this, many health care providers are seriously short on staff. Also, a new survey by Morning Consult showed that more cases of the disease may be coming.

In spite of these problems, nurses play important roles in the health care system and are leading the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, nurses are the best trained to deal with health problems in the near future. COVID-19 has hurt nurses more than anyone else. The International Council of Nurses says that the virus has spread to as many as a million nurses. So, it is very important that nurses keep giving essential health care so that another epidemic doesn't start.

The first wave of COVID-19 was a worldwide event that gave nurses little time to get ready and made them make new plans for how to care for their patients. The Brief Resilience Coping Scale (BRCS) and qualitative analysis were used to measure how resilient nurses were during this crisis. The average score of the 43 nurses who filled out the survey for the study was 14.4. Five themes came out of the study that show how strong the nurses were in the face of the situation.

The health of nurses is greatly affected by their social and financial situations. Gender and power differences in nursing jobs make these problems even worse. Because of this, it is very important to work for equality in the working conditions of nurses. Also, neoliberal austerity measures are making nursing jobs less secure and making nurses more vulnerable to things that are bad for their health.