The omission of Nursing from a federal code regulating student loans may impact education funding for the thousands of nurses and nursing students in the state.
from a federal code regulating student loans may impact education funding for the thousands of nurses and nursing students in the state.is one of many made by the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill.
” While the bill passed earlier this year, it and many other changes are rolling out now, concerning those in the profession. “As a profession, we’ve been around for hundreds and hundreds of years,” said Shannon Davenport, a nurse and president of the Alaska Nurses Association. “So, to be told that we’re no longer one came as not just a shock, but a little bit of disbelief.” The designation of nursing degrees no longer having “professional” status means that students loans for those degrees are capped at $100,000, as opposed to the previous $200,000. “Nursing school is not inexpensive,” Davenport said. “It takes between, starting from a few thousand dollars up to over two-hundred-thousand dollars.”“We’re losing those advanced practice nurses,” Davenport said. “Our midwives, our anesthesiologists, our teachers, which are one of our hugest advocates, our clinical teachers, our nurse professional teachers. We’re losing them by these non-professional practices being taken away from us, if you will, or being eradicated.”Davenport herself finished additional education while working as a nurse. With the new “non-professional” designation, Davenport revisiting the financial cost of that education “It’s going to have to really be a strain on my finances to look at how am I going to pay for school now,” Davenport said. “I’m fortunate in that I’m at the tail end of my program, but there’s still books to buy, there’s still classes to take, there’s licensure. We pay for a license every two years, and they’re not inexpensive. “So, when you add all of those things up, it creates a huge detriment and a financial hardship for those trying to just become, higher educated, to be a better asset for our communities and the people we serve.”, and that does not include part time practitioners in other specialized fields. Davenport said that each year, there is a need for 9,000 nurses in the state and drawing them here is already a challenge. This new designation might make it even more so. “The people who really are going to feel the effects are the people we care for,” Davenport said. “Our patients, their families. Us not being able to provide a service means people have to leave our state to go out of state for service, and that’s not something we want.”No hydrants, big flames: AFD battles major hillside house fireFalse bills, expired meds: Anchorage doctor pleads guilty in $12M fraud schemeHalong evacuees, SCI Alaska support relief efforts with hunting trip
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