I'm a nurse and left the field for the foreseeable future once the pandemic turned out to be the final straw, AMA.

To answer the question though, it's the same problems as there were pre-pandemic, all dialed up to 11, first by the government and then by the virus.

Before those two things, every month someone who had never once stepped foot on the ward came up with some brilliant new initiative/metric for us to track that added ~5-10 minutes of work/day. Doesn't sound like much but it adds up so quickly over time that you end up with 16 hours of work for a 12 hour shift. Given that management cares more about those metrics than actual patient care, you then have to decide between being chewed out by your boss, or being a shitty nurse.

Then your government legislates out any power your already-useless union had by voiding your collective agreement and banning collective bargaining, and offers you a 1% "increase" cap during the hottest years of inflation in recent memory.

The solution is pretty easy. Increase staffing. Increase wages and PTO(look at how well cops and firefighters have done recently). Increase mental healthcare coverage (the number of healthcare workers with untreated PTSD/anxiety/depression is insane and the ~3 appointments/year we're covered for is a joke).

Stop expecting us to continually do more with less knowing that we'll somehow find a way at our own personal expense because it's burnt everyone out.