Standardization is key to efficiency and buy-in for nurse residency programs, says this nurse leader. This year, the current state and future of nursing education sparked discourse among many CNOs who ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education has excluded nursing from its definition of "professional degree" programs as it implements student loan changes under President Donald Trump's "One Big ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act sets new loan limits on what it categorizes as "professional" graduate programs. An Education Department proposal defining which graduate degrees fall into the ...

Congress’s new graduate lending caps arrive at a delicate moment for the nation’s health care workforce. By capping federal graduate loans and phasing out Grad PLUS, HR 1 (the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

The statistics are shocking: 138,000 registered nurses (RNs) have left the workforce since 2022 and at least 40% plan to retire or leave the profession in the next 5 years — and new updates from the ...

In July 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a list of graduate programs it considered “professional degrees.” Some nurses were outraged to see nursing programs weren’t on the list. The ...

Placing a monetary limit on graduate students' federal student loans would worsen the nation's nursing shortage, according to a University of Michigan study, under a Trump administration proposal that ...

There aren’t enough people training to become nurses to meet the rising demands for nurse practitioners and registered nurses. Iconic Prototype/iStock/Getty Images Plus There is growing need for ...