Overwhelming, demanding – yet a rewarding experience? A new study points to several measures that can make the first practice placement for student nurses safer and more educational. What surprised me ...

Kentucky’s health care system faces serious workforce challenges, yet recent federal and institutional actions threaten to deepen those problems rather than solve them. The U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

A patient was in pain, frustrated because she felt like no one was listening to her. Emily Barksdale, a nursing student at UNC-Chapel Hill at the time, walked in and asked the patient to describe her ...

New limits on federal student loans could reshape how the U.S. trains nurses and doctors. Under the One Big Beautiful Act, medical students would be capped at borrowing $50,000 per year. The Trump ...

Reports that a Trump administration change might make it harder for aspiring nurses to pay for their education sparked outrage online. Some social media users said President Donald Trump had signed ...

For nursing students, this rule change is a “smack in the face,” said Susan Pratt, a nurse who also serves as the president of an Ohio union that represents nurses. “When we were during the pandemic, ...

Fort Hays State University’s Department of Nursing is expanding opportunities for advanced practice nurses with its Doctor of Nursing Practice (MSN to DNP) pathway, an affordable, flexible, and highly ...