Roberto Tecpile gets his blood pressure checked during a health screening with Amaris Vesely, a nursing student from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, at the Rosenholm dairy farm in Cochrane, Wis. (Caroline Yang for HuffPost)

The Trump administration is no longer considering nursing as a professional degree, as it begins rolling out student loan changes in its One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

That means getting financial help to complete advanced degrees in nursing and other health care professions could become more difficult at a time when Wisconsin is facing a shortage.

Under the U.S. Department of Education’s new definition of professional programs, nursing, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, physical therapy and audiology programs are now excluded and must follow new borrowin

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