Nursing organizations are “deeply concerned” after the occupation has been “excluded” by definition as a “professional degree” by the Department of Education.
The decision is part of the sweeping cuts to student loans, overseen by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, laid out in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
The move has alarmed nursing organizations, which warned that limiting student nurses’ access to funding “threatens the very foundation of patient care.”
Does that mean that no one needs a license now? You’re a nurse-accountant-architect, I’m a nurse-accountant-architect, everyone is a nurse-accountant-architect. Suck it AIA
Don’t think that is what it is about, I think what it means is unless you come from a family who can afford to assist you financially when you are going to a good nursing school, you won’t be able to complete it using loans made available for a “non-prefessional” trade. Maybe I read that wrong but it sounds like if you need over 100k loans to finish nursing school (maybe some students start going for nursing and then probably proceed to doctorates I assume) basically making it so if you come from a poor background but get good grades and qualify academically, you will hit ceilings of where you can go to school based off income.
Hopefully someone can point out if I am misunderstanding that.
Edit: maybe it’s the iron dome Trump wanted, strengthening the glass ceiling to am iron dome that the poor can’t penetrate easily, and those above it can operate as “greaters” above the laws and above their true peers. Class war
I think you’re right. It will be those with financial resources that can enter the profession, which basically means that there will be even fewer nurses and the cost of healthcare will increase even further. It will be only available to the 1%.