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This year’s nursing school graduates matriculated before the pandemic took hold, and over the course of their studies, they’ve seen the profession go through an upheaval. Waves of COVID-19 delayed students’ clinical rotations at patient care facilities. When they were allowed back into hospitals, clinics and long-term care facilities, the work was more intense than many had expected.

Connecticut needs 3,000 new nurses a year and only 2,000 of them graduate — and many of them are leaving.

“I was shocked,” said Jillian Levesque, one of the University of Connecticut School of Nursing’s five valedictorians from the class of 2022.

CT needs 3,000 new nurses a year and only 2,000 graduate — and many of them are...

Connecticut needs 3,000 new nurses a year and only 2,000 of them graduate — and many of them are leaving.

In a guest column, a nurse from Winter Springs details the steps AdventHealth and other medical institutions are taking to recruit more staff.

The hospital celebrated International Nurses Day with a two-day event

March 30 is National Doctors Day, a holiday signed into law over 30 years ago.

Training, recruiting and retaining medical staff is critical as Connecticut bleeds doctors and nurses.

Calls to shore up Connecticut’s health care workforce are getting louder, after the latest COVID variant placed heightened stress on the state’s nurses, physicians, behavioral specialists and other medical staff. Advocates and lawmakers say programs they’ve long pushed for — workforce training, medical school loan forgiveness, higher nurse-to-patient ratios, simpler license transfers from other states and medical liability insurance reform, to name a few — are all on the table heading ...