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Nursing Excluded as 'Professional' Degree By Department of Education

The Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill" excludes nursing from graduate degree programs deemed as 'professional.' The move impacts loan funding, healthcare delivery, and patient care access.

nurse.org

What on earth did President Trump have and hold against the nurses?

 

[Hutan]

Nursing Excluded as 'Professional' Degree By Department of Education

detail from that article:

To clarify who can access that money as a professional student, the Department of Education categorized the following programs as professional:

• Medicine
• Pharmacy
• Dentistry
• Optometry
• Law
• Veterinary medicine
• Osteopathic medicine
• Podiatry
• Chiropractic
• Theology
• Clinical psychology

Notably excluded from that list?
Nurse practitioners, along with physician assistants and physical therapists.

I find it extraordinary that some of those fields e.g. chiropractic are on the list and yet graduate nursing is not. It really illustrates some of the mindsets we are up against.