During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have been lauded as important frontline healthcare workers who interacted with patients directly to provide different forms of care. Such interactions have affected the nursing workforce in numerous ways (Chan et al., 2021). Understanding these implications in a variety of situations is essential for conducting research, executing innovative strategies, and developing supportive guidelines to mitigate such impacts and to prevent them from recurring next time a pandemic such as COVID-19 strikes (Barrett & Heale, 2021). Therefore, it is important to explore how COVID-19 has affected the nursing workforce both directly and indirectly.