Travel Nursing Agencies Draw Lawmakers' Scrutiny.

So more staff nurses quit to become contract nurses, further lowering the nurse supply and driving demand for contract nurses. Many staff nurses say the problem is not that travel nursing agencies are price gouging; it is that there aren't enough nurses to do an increasingly challenging job for relatively low staff wages. That fact isn't surprising--COVID-19 has transformed health care facilities, including Thomas Health's hospital system in Charleston, W.Va., where Kahn works--but the reasons may be. [Extracted from the article]