There will be a projected 350,000 nurse shortage by 2026

[Coldwater]

and now the Trump Department of Education has put a limit on how much nurses can take out in loans for their education





Link

https://www.statesman.com/news/article/nursing-no-longer-professional-degree-21198671.php

[TheFarseer]

1. Don't worry

Elon Musk or some other AI douchebag will put millions of robots in hospitals any day now. We won’t need any nurses at all.

[Hugin]

9. Next up is a real version of a scene from Idiocracy...

Detailing the strife when the color chart explaining which probe goes where has long been lost.

[haele]

2. I found it interesting that MBAs and MBSs are no longer considered professions, either...

I rather think they're using the dartboard method of determining what is and isn't a career.
Unless, of course, they're using AI to determine which fields get a lot of Poor Folk applying for scholarships and which fields are getting more wealthier or alumni kids who won't need scholarships as much.
They're probably going on an End Stage Capitalism view of success-
If you can't afford the education in the first place, you probably don't have the proper Background or Network to have a Real Career.
You're just a climber wannabe. Go back to the Workhouse, and don't ask for any more gruel...

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. The US has lost 50 nurses to Vancouver Island BC since April.

And 100’s more to the rest of Canada.

[allegorical oracle]

8. Friend of mine is a nurse practitioner with the VA. She says they're short of

nurses now. It's sad because nursing was always one of female-friendly professions that paid decently. And it is a profession -- just ask surgical nurses who work cardiac emergencies.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. As someone who just came home from the hospital

about eight hours ago, thank god for the nurses. They were the ones who took care of me, and I was probably a much more difficult patient than I thought I was.

Again, thank god for the nurses.

My mom was a nurse. She became one in the mid 1930s, and so the profession is very different, but the nurses are still wonderful.

I was there because of a "myocardial infarction" which seems to this lay person to be a baby heart attack. Nonetheless, I'm now on serious medication, being signed up for cardiac rehab, and all that.

True story: when my sister Kathie was 42 she had a major heart attack. She later said it was worthwhile, because she was in cardiac rehab with Ella Fitzgerald.

[not fooled]

5. Cuts to the CDC,...NIH,...cancer research...Bobby K in charge of our health...

...making it more difficult to finance medical education...downgrading the status of nurses...defunding Medicaid and Medicare...destroying the ACA...


I think they're sending a message, which would be best described as "Die, Proles."

[Irish_Dem]

6. The rich do not want resources going into healthcare.

They want to cull the herd.
And all the resources in the world belong to them so they think.

[Hugin]

7. Reagan did the same to engineers in 1986.

Within a week I was sitting nearly alone in my classes.

I have never heard a rational explanation for the removal of professional status from a degree.

The only reason I have come up with is that it snuffs the development of well funded associations and uppity unions.

[travelingthrulife]

10. This may be a planned thing to flood the nursing market with poorly trained people

Evangelical christians and other MAHA influencers think they should have the same status as doctors and nurses because they are 'healers'.

I was astounded by how many RNs fell for the anti-vax stupidity. No clue how our immune systems work.