Every day since November 2024, I’ve woken up wondering where the wrecking ball will strike next.

In a nation already buckling under humanitarian crises — families torn apart by ICE raids, communities grieving the toll of violence and working families struggling to afford basic necessities — the last thing I ever imagined was witnessing that same wrecking ball crash directly into the nursing profession.

Yet here we are. What feels like a bad dream is, in fact, a stark reality: an administrative decision that prioritizes chaos over stability and ideology over common sense.

The U.S. Department of Education’s recent reclassification of which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees” for federal student loan purposes delivered a devastating and unexpected blow. While medicine, de

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