Rule 10 Submission Statement: The U.S. Department of Education has officially excluded nursing in its recently revamped definition of “professional degree” programs.
This will decrease loan amounts nurses can get, meaning it will become harder for them to be able to further their education. This will lead to a decrease in the number of nurses coming into the field; which in turn will lead to a reduction of nurses overall. Therefore, this will inevitably increase the need to import nurses from other countries. Read: more H-1B visas.
The United States is already in a critical nursing shortage and this will only exacerbate the situation. How this is good for the United States? Nurse Practitioners can diagnose illness and prescribe medicine; yet a Theologian is still a "professional" while a Nurse Practitioner is not?
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How is a Catholic priest with an MDiv not qualify as a professional but counselors and social workers do?
Nurse practitioners are “mid-level practitioners”, which seems to be defined as those “who assess, diagnose, and treat patients but do not have formal education or certification as a physician.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_practitioner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-level_practitioner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Divinity