Pushback is mounting against new federal student-loan reforms passed under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with lawmakers warning the policy could further strain the nursing workforce. In a Dec. 12 ...

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 ...

The new federal student loan limit for nurses pursuing graduate degrees could have a huge domino effect on one of the state’s ...

If adopted as written, these provisions would undermine efforts by health systems like ours that are investing in nurses’ education and leadership ...

Nursing continues to fight for proper acknowledgment as it is excluded from the federal professional degree list amid student ...

Nursing remains practical and hands-on. However, it is also strengthened by conceptual and theoretical knowledge applied artfully and scientifically. The practice of advanced nursing requires a higher ...

More nurses are needed at the bedside than ever before, yet the profession continues to suffer from shortages and turnover rates as high as 37 percent in some regions. And although pursuing advanced ...

Student debt often provokes outrage. But the usual complaint is that student debt is too high. Now, nursing associations are angry that nurses’ student debt will be too low. The American Association ...

A moderate shift to include more advanced practice providers in nursing homes can lead to measurable improvements in patient outcomes, a new study has found. Some 41% of nursing homes increased use of ...

Advanced nursing practice in the UK was pioneered in the 1970s. Advanced nursing roles have grown but the UK lacks a regulatory framework to define advanced practice and the education it requires; ...

The authors posit the role of the advanced practice nurse in the primary care setting with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. They also propose that the advanced practice nurse ...