How do I recruit and retain nursing staff, in this environment of an international shortage?

I am a Nurse Manager of an orthopaedic ward in Sydney. I have a great team of nurses but have a major shortage in skilled experienced nurses.

Benefits, incentive programs, rewards for great work. If you make your workplace people will enjoy coming to everyday and feel appreciated, they will often times stay over accepting a higher paying job where they will be miserable. Alot of places are doing recruitment videos, where prospective employees can see "a day in the life of...", so they know what they are getting into. If you have a great staff who would be willing to talk on camera about why they love their jobs, it goes a long way in putting interest into the position.

with the world getting greedy and the price of everything skyrocketing, you have to PAY for skilled experienced nurses
to attract them.

Our local hospitals use international nurses. We also have programs for specializing that require a two year commitment.

I am an experienced staff nurse and what nurses want is to be paid like the professionals that they are. I worked in an organziation that was having major problems with recruitment and retention and the organization substantially increased the pay and benefits for RNs. Word got out and in a short time ALL of the RN positions were filled. Because there was a large amount of applicants, managers had a larger pool to hire from. The result was that they got some awesome, experienced staff. This resulted in better morale for the "old staff" because they saw mandatory OT reduce and improved quality of care.