During the pandemic, mid-career and older nurses have experienced burnout, left emergency departments and intensive care units for less stressful positions or retired early. Many younger nurses opted for lucrative traveling assignments. Nurses periodically fell ill with COVID and had to stay home, placing further stress on health care facilities.

The approximately 2,000 nurses graduating from Connecticut institutions this year can't fill those gaps in the workforce.

CT MIrror's economic development reporter Erica Phillips talks to host Ebong Udoma about what's being done to plan for the future. You can read her story here.

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During the pandemic, mid-career and older nurses have experienced burnout, left emergency departments and intensive care units for less stressful positions or retired early. Many younger nurses opted for lucrative traveling assignments. Nurses periodically fell ill with COVID and had to stay home, placing further stress on health care facilities.
The approximately 2,000 nurses graduating from Connecticut institutions this year can't fill those gaps in the workforce.
CT MIrror's economic development reporter Erica Phillips talks to host Ebong Udoma about what's being done to plan for the future. You can <a href="https://ctmirror.org/2022/06/12/demand-for-nurses-is-urgent-cts-colleges-and-universities-cant-keep-up/">read her story here</a>.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Welcome to Steady Habits: A CT Mirror Podcast, hosted by John Dankosky. Our goal is to foster meaningful conversations with newsmakers and the journalists who cover them. We're planning to dig into Connecticut's biggest stories in policy and politics. Let's get started.

Steady Habits: A CT Mirror Podcast

Steady Habits: A CT Mirror Podcast, hosted by John Dankosky, aims to foster meaningful conversations with newsmakers and the journalists who cover them. Each episode, we dig into Connecticut's biggest stories in policy and politics.

Steady Habits: A CT Mirror Podcast, hosted by John Dankosky, aims to foster meaningful conversations with newsmakers and the journalists who cover them. Each episode, we dig into Connecticut's biggest stories in policy and politics.

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