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.”

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    My wife mentioned that Teachers are no longer listed as professionals either. They literally want or country to be as dumb as fucking rocks, slave our life away, and die horribly.

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    Programs deemed “professional” by the department were medicine, pharmacy, law, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, optometry, podiatry, chiropractic, veterinary medicine, theology, and clinical psychology.

    Nurses are no longer professionals, but these 2 are?

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    Oh, the boomers are about to learn all about nurse to patient ratios and staffing turnover at nursing homes.

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        They’re absolutely gonna learn because they’ll be sitting in their own shit and getting bed sores and uti’s and all sorts of awful preventable diseases and there will be Cuomo to the nth power death tolls as a result, although while they are having the direct experience their children will likely be the ones most capable of grasping the true scale of it, but they won’t be able to do anything about it because they’ll all be working poor, if they’re lucky cry enough to be working at all.

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    Thank you first responders. Remember during covid when Trump fucked it all up, gave free money to his friends, and nurses worked so much god damned ouertime to save people? I do.

    Fuck Trump.