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Who will replace the nurses driven out of the profession by pandemic stress?

The physical and emotional toll of treating COVID-19 patients is driving many nurses to leave the profession, and it’s raising alarms about the state’s capacity to educate their replacements. To learn more about why nursing programs are so impacted, and how to fix them, Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock spoke with Catherine Kennedy, a registered nurse and a president of the California Nurses Association, Ashley A. Smith, a reporter with EdSource, and Keisha Lewis Nesbitt, director of nursing at Fresno City College.
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