The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
    113·
    16 days ago

    This is misgovernance in the extreme, but the following is not the best quote to support that point, emphasis mine:

    One nurse posted through the IVs By The Seas TikTok account, a clinic offering mobile IV hydration and aesthetic services in New Jersey: “10 years of schooling… $210k in student loan debt… 15 years of ER and Trauma experience which included preventing physicians from making error at 3 a.m. and now.… my degree isn’t considered a professional degree. Cool.”

    It’s cool that they have a nurse doing that, but hangover cures and spa treatments don’t seem like a great use for those ten years of schooling (now, the ER and trauma experience is obviously valuable). No shade to her, and I completely understand that an entire career working as an ER and trauma nurse would be demoralizing, but this is a perfect snippet for people who support rolling reimbursement back to quote to show that it’s not really needed.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.world
    771·
    16 days ago

    It’s an attack on women. Nursing has historically been one of the only accepted paths for women to make a living wage. It’s an equivalent wage to the construction or police profession that is typically male dominated. I expect to see a lot of attacks on women’s ability to be self sufficient in the coming years. Subjugation and forced birth is the goal.

    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      10·
      15 days ago

      Step one: Get into power Step two: Crash the economy Step Three: buy up every on the cheap whike destroying welfare and anything you want rid of. Step four: Monopolies for the rich, corporoticracy for everyone else.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        101·
        15 days ago

        …Here we may reign secure, and in my choice

        To reign is worth ambition though in hell:

        Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

        Lucifer: Paradise Lost

  • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    991·
    16 days ago

    Fellas, is it good when I stop funding nursing education in the middle of a nurse shortage

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      6·
      16 days ago

      Just as good as deporting immigrant truckers during a ongoing trucker shortage. Big brains in the White House, clearly.

    • Seaguy05@lemmy.world
      18·
      16 days ago

      They want to reduce the needed learning so they can pay people less to do the same job but pass it off as some streamlining process to address shortages. They’re still going to charge the same for care but pay less to those who provide it.

      Taking an actual problem and looking to address it from a capitalist view point so that line always goes up.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        4·
        16 days ago

        Making nursing school less affordable will affect the number of nurses in like 4? 6? Years. You as an octogenarian may not expect to need care that far in the future

        • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          It’ll be immediate because there are certain nursing certifications that take much less. Nurses are going to lose financing for that and it’ll create shortages within a year.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      385·
      16 days ago

      They want us to die. Nothing they’ve demonstrated has shown anything but a deep, willful satisfaction in making American citizens suffer and a desire to kill off anyone who isn’t a member of the administration.

      I hope you dipshit Lemmy leftist kids are prepared to actually work to vote people out in the coming midterms and following 2028 election, and not get lost down some third-party fantasy or hold tight for “the revolution” to start.

      • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        I hope you dipshit Lemmy leftist kids are prepared to actually work

        vote people out

        not get lost down some third-party fantasy

        You should take your own advice.

        The US had their chance to vote this out. It’s going to take a hell of a lot of anti-establishment actions from this point forward, and no, canceling your Disney+ subscription won’t be enough.

  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
    312·
    16 days ago

    I want to stop being surprised but I can’t imagine the sheer depth of inhumanity and monstrosity of these people, and I am someone who grew up with a lifelong hatred of Nazis and their mythic-levels of cruelty.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    22·
    15 days ago

    I hope he gets a nurse with a fake degree the next time they have to rush his fat ass to Walter Reed.

          • PeacefulForest@lemmy.world
            4·
            15 days ago

            Shortage’s are very common, but from what I’m aware it’s not due to lack of nurses, it’s due to the hospitals not staffing appropriately to save money for their CEOs.

              • PeacefulForest@lemmy.world
                2·
                15 days ago

                Yeah this is actually a huge issue that drives me crazy. Patients do not get nearly as good care as they could have if hospitals just staffed appropriately, people literally die because of this and it still happens because the hospital gas-lights everyone by making up bullshit excuse. At least in the U.S. Anytime you ask why things are they way they are and wonder how it can be better, follow the money. It’s always greedy assholes fucking up the world.