A new federal rule has quietly made nursing education financially inaccessible. The Department of Education recently locked in place a 1960s-era list of “professions,” and nursing wasn’t on that list.

Three years ago, the Maryland Hospital Association issued a dire warning: Maryland needs more nurses. The COVID-19 pandemic had aggravated a growing shortage of both registered nurses and licensed ...

In November, we reported on nursing groups that pushed back against a Trump administration proposal to de-list nursing as a professional degree for purposes of student borrowing. In this report, we ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is calling on the federal government to reverse a change that could limit student loan funding for certain nursing programs. On Tuesday, Stein urged Secretary of ...

As part of the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the Department of Education plans to overhaul the federal loan system, and this could spell trouble for certain groups of students. As ...

The Department of Education has excluded nursing from what are considered professional degree programs, as it is set to implement measures listed in Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The ...

Hannah Moffenbier was working as a bedside nurse when she realized something was seriously wrong with the American healthcare system. “When I was at the bedside, I could quite literally feel the ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck five years ago, the nursing profession was thrust into the spotlight as one of the toughest jobs in the world. The virus also played a role in Crestwood resident ...

As a nursing school dean, I have a front-row view of just how fragile our nation’s nursing workforce has become. Every year, I watch students determinedly push past financial barriers, long hours and ...

Students from professional degree programs — including medicine, dentistry and law — will be able to take out $200,000 in ...