The above visualization portrays a state vise trend for shortage in percentage of clinical, nursing, aides, and other staff over the period of three years 2020 to 2022. For the year 2020, majority of the states like Arizona, California, Nevada, and Kansas faced higher percentage in shortage of nursing staff around August and December. Whereas a few states like Massachusetts, DC and New York faced this problem around June.

According to UCSF News the shortage of nursing staff is a preexisting issue which accelerated due to the pandemic. Moreover, due the pandemic, there are fewer people graduating due to limit on classroom population.

For the year 2021 and 2021, there is a steady increase in percentage of shortage of nursing staff in majority of states like California, Colorado, Florida, and Kansas. According to, SNHU News the primary reason for the shortage is alleviated need of nursing staff and faking number of nursing teachers. Even though the interest in this field is high, due to less number of teacher, the class size is limited.

The above map provides a visual representation for percentage of shortage of Nursing Staff over the span of three years. It provides more in depth analysis with respect to individual states. Here we can see for the year 2020, Minnesota, Georgia and Maine have the highest percentage for shortage of nursing staff. Where as for 2021 and 2022, Kansas and Maine mark the highest percentage.