{"id":81604,"date":"2025-11-24T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81604"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:08:00","slug":"nursing-is-not-a-professional-degree-amidst-student-loan-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/24\/nursing-is-not-a-professional-degree-amidst-student-loan-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing is not a &#8216;professional degree&#8217; amidst student loan changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/21\/USAT\/87400138007-getty-images-1237890478.jpg?width=2560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0administration redefines which degrees are considered &#8220;professional,&#8221; many graduate students are left with questions and concerns about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/11\/21\/nurses-professional-degree-education-department-loan-limit-risk\/87400415007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/11\/21\/nurses-professional-degree-education-department-loan-limit-risk\/87400415007\/\">\u00a0how to finance their education<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/11\/21\/what-considered-professional-degree-explained\/87396245007\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>As\u00a0President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u00a0administration redefines which degrees are considered &#8220;professional,&#8221; many graduate students are left with questions and concerns about\u00a0how to finance their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nurse-nice.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81605,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81604\/revisions\/81605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}