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Felician University’s nursing school held its winter graduation. There were 65 new nurses on stage.

They are now heading to hospitals all over New Jersey – and they are much-needed. There was a nursing shortage before 2020 and it was only made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The largest nurses union in the state estimates that about one-third of nurses in New Jersey left their jobs in the last three years.

These new nurses are here to help – and make New Jersey proud.