Yes this is the problem though. Caring, skilled and competent people can usually get a better paying less stressful job in the private sector. In the UK we have teachers, doctors and nurses leaving in their thousands.

My friend used to work in a nursing and it broke her heart how understaffed they were, so much so that she could not give all the patients the level of care she wanted. She was smart and hardworking, so got a cushy office job in a heartbeat, leaving the nursing home with the remaining lazy staff.