America's nurse shortage is a crisis in the making. Training nurses to be leaders could solve it

After a year defined by the global public health crisis of COVID-19, America’s nursing workforce is in dire straits. Some experts estimate that last year marked the largest retirement of nurses ever recorded in the U.S., and forecasts predict an additional 500,000 nursing retirements by 2022, which will leave the country with a nursing shortage totaling an estimated 1.1 million.