UVM Medical Center working to increase recruitment and retention of nurses [Video]

This week is National Nurse Appreciation Week, and one of our area’s largest hospitals kicked off a series of events on Tuesday.It comes as the industry continues to deal with staffing shortages. The University of Vermont Medical Center has around 330 open positions for clinical nurses right now.The staff shortages aren’t unique to UVMMC, and staff said they’ve been seeing recent improvements.One way of combating that is to use traveling nurses.”We definitely had a lot of staffing issues on our floor,” said Julia Cronan, a general medicine registered nurse at the hospital. “Being a more newer floor, we have a lot of travelers. The majority of our staff is travelers at this point.”Another nurse, Sarah Moore, said that she’s noticed more nurses coming to work at the hospital in more permanent positions.”We are seeing an uptrend in recruiting our own, which has been awesome,” said Moore. “I’m so excited to …