The scientific literature has identified a number of factors that are the most frequent reasons for nurses leaving the profession. The successive decrease in the number of professionally active nurses is affected by such issues as: lack of employment in the profession despite obtained qualifications, financially-motivated emigration, and leaving the profession. This report also points out a decrease in the number of practicing nurses in Poland in recent years and predicts a continuation of this trend in the following years ( Supreme Chamber of Nurses and Midwives, 2017). According to the data from the Polish Supreme Council of Nurses and Midwives report, the same indicator of practicing nurses in 2015 was only 3.9 in the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

Moreover, the average for 35 OECD countries was 9.0 ( OECD, 2017). For comparison, the highest indicator was in Switzerland at 18.0 and in neighboring countries it was: Denmark – 16.7, Germany – 13.3, Sweden – 11.1, Czechia – 8.0, and Lithuania – 7.7. Poland, however, has one of the lowest indicators of practicing nurses per 1000 residents among the OECD countries. This problem has been trending in most countries around the world ( Buerhaus et al., 2007 Haddad and Toney-Butler, 2019 Haegdorens et al., 2019). A shortage of nursing personnel severely affects the quality of medical services.

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