The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

The Department of Education has plans to redefine what constitutes a professional degree which would exclude nursing and limit access to student loans from the Graduate PLUS loan program. At a time when health care in our country faces a historic nursing shortage, limiting nurses' access to funding for graduate education threatens the very foundation of patient care and is not a solution.

Pres Trump decision to withdraw the US from the WHO has left many global healthcare professionals, country leaders and Nurses in a huge Void

Nurses are making a difference. Celebrate a Nurse this week with Respect and Gratitude. And, invite a Nurse to the decision-making table.