The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a Biden-era rule that required a minimum number of healthcare staff in nursing homes. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday in a ...

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A group of bipartisan lawmakers sent a letter to the Education Department urging it to add nursing to the list of “professional degrees,” which would allow students to take out more federal loans. New ...

Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, including maggots infesting her gangrened foot, that the hospital called an elder ...

The Trump administration has repealed a Biden-era rule setting minimum staffing levels at nursing homes nationwide, even as shorthanded Long Island eldercare facilities are struggling to fill vacant ...

The Trump administration has decided that, for student loan programs at least, nursing programs are not "professional" degrees. While the decision simply means nursing students will be subject to a ...

The Trump administration’s plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree would exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing ...

Change in US federal education policy causes concern in healthcare, academic communities Nursing degrees, among others, will no longer be classified as “professional degrees” in the US, under a new ...

Ulrich is the Lillian S. Brunner endowed chair in medical and surgical nursing, and professor of nursing and medical ethics and health policy, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Trump administration proposes excluding nursing and other fields from “professional” designation, capping graduate ...

A coalition of nursing and other health care organizations are angry over a Trump administration plan that could limit access to student loans in some cases. Students pursuing graduate degrees in ...