If you need something but don't have a budget for it, that's not demand.

They're also replaced in droves. We build hundreds of new student accounts at $dayjob on a monthly basis.

Is the nurse quality of life that terrible? What can they do to make it better?

The difference between peoples conceptions of Nursing, and what the job is in real life is impossible to describe, other than vast and improbable. Having had both of my parents go through hospitals and into long term care, in a process that is ongoing for years now, the 'Nurses stations' in the hospital have laptops, desktops, printers, and sundry other gadjets all buried in paper, with varios layers of management tucked away here and there, but most of the actual work delegated to 'sitters', who are imigrants trying to get there 'pr'(permanent residency), and turn out to be largely farm kids from the developing world, BUT also some of the managers are also from those parts, and are excptionaly qualified professionals who have been head hunted to take on the very difficult jobs of keeping the whole mess of people, computers, and paper failing forward. Add in the actual patients and familys and OTHER beurocracys, and yep, and some people just get up and walk out. I should add that both of my above mentioned parents are retired medical people and I grew up watching as the systems changed and how there jobs changed, and how they fought for there patients and staff as things got progressivly worse, litteral from a world where a doctor would ask 'may I see the chart', because it was strictly the resonsibility of the Nurse on duty, and though hanging right there on a hook, there would be very few doctors who had the nerve to pick it up on there own, as the whole medical system rested on personal proffesional authority operating in a hiarchical chain of command, and there is exactly ONE copy of the patients chart, which is sufficient for the job. It's a shit show now, and the whole concept of indivual authority and responsibility has been destroyed, and replaced with another system where some people have responsibilities, but a whole other, remote group have ALL the authority.