Money in nursing has not gone up much at all in the last ten years, just like in other professions. Don't let those sucker ads with big promises fool you.
The money isn't better, the hours are worse, the responsibility greater and the liability is nutz.
Like every other business, healthcare values cheap labor, not great experienced workers.
There are millions of educated nurses in the US. If they were paid what the job should be paid, they would come and they would stay.
I knew something was wrong when nurses were telling me don't get into nursing and everything else.