There is a case for the high-end nurse. The dirty little secret of the high-tech, computerized hospitals of today is that they are germ farms. It ought to be possible to fix the problem. For all the social changes of the past few decades, it is hard to believe that the vocational impulse is altogether dead. Plenty of people do difficult, often unpleasant work for the love of it.
Ministers of religion toil away on pittances.
Combat units of the armed forces get plenty of recruits. If there is not, our society has a malaise that no quantity of nursing of any kind will cure.