This MAGA RN is why we remain marginalized and constantly discounted ....

The faculty, researchers, clinical practicum supervisors, etc are all masters and PhD prepared.

If these nurses are wiped out who will teach the undergrad nurses?

Yet another reason that hurting any part of nursing (or teaching, or therapists, or any other profession) is bad for the WHOLE profession. But I feel that is a hallmark of conservatism. "If it doesn't affect me personally, it doesn't affect anyone else".

See, problem solved via billionaire greed and brain dead MAGA thinking

The rich believe all the money in the world belongs to them.
They don't want to share.

With AI and robots, they do not need worker bees anymore.
Time to cull the herd.

Trump Privately Stated Stephen Miller Wanted “Only 100 Million Americans Who Look Like Him”

https://centeredamerica.substack.com/p/news-trump-privately-stated-stephen]

Just listened to Stephen Miller's wife on You Tube. Wow, is that woman ever shrill and pissed off. Too bad she can't think critically and notice the true causes of her hurt and anger. She certainly does project a lot and fails to do logic when searching for cause/effect.

patients would not know who was a professional. They were legally forced to stop.

They want to flood nursing with incompetent people. They tried this before by importing Philippine trained RNs thinking they could pay them lower wages and thus bring all wages down. Turns out people from the Philippines well know the value of a dollar. We got a bunch of excellent nurses and our pay held.

Said 'Registered Professional Nurse' when I got my 1st license.

License says the same thing today for any nurse with a NY state nursing license

the DoE disagrees. This new designation at the federal level of not being "professional" limits loans that can be taken out for graduate programs in nursing as well as affects some loan forgiveness programs.

Without graduate prepared nurses, rural communities with little access to healthcare have even less access when there are fewer NPs because competent candidates cannot afford graduate school. Same with who teaches the classes. These are graduate prepared nurses educating the next generation of nurses. The best and brightest may not be there if they can't afford graduate school.

Nurses are mandatory reporters of abuse...fewer nurses means fewer reports.

as well as all the correct-minded rural people who didn't vote for this BS. I have rural maga voter grave markers ready with the inscription "I owned the libs."

The Republicans are starting to even fuck over THEIR MAGAot voters.........I figure the only reason is, that they don't need them any longer, and have the Election Process so rigged that they no longer need the voters to guarantee the outcome in their favor.........
They screwed the farmers the first time around with Soybean Farmers getting obliterated, they still voted for him two more times, and the Farmers are getting screwed again, but now joined by the Ranchers/Cattle people getting screwed also, along with Rural voters getting hammered with the continuing decline in numbers of health care professionals, and the TONs of small Rural hospitals shutting down permanently...

People have joked, for as long as I can remember, (1960's Forward) about the Republican Adage:

"IF YOU GET SICK, DIE"

BTW, we need to start saying Republicans, and not use the word Trump. Because it TRULY is the Republican House, Republican Senators, and the Republican Supreme Court that have promoted him and kept him in power. Trump wouldn't have lasted the first week of his first term if it weren't for all of them. At some point, Trump will croak, or the Republicans will get tired of his antics, and they will present to the voters that THEY recognized the problem, THEY took care of it, and now they are all squared away, and voters can now feel safe going for a Miller/Vought ticket....

We traveled in a rural area last October, a few weeks before the election. We saw barns painted with huge signs "Trump: Hold on I'm coming!" and other nonsense.

We stopped at a Subway for lunch and saw an older couple wearing Farmers for Trump t-shirts. They were unfriendly.

They convinced themselves that Trump would fix every problem in their lives.

They will move the goalposts as often as necessary and make up rationalizations for every evil action.

They believe they are correct, just as they believe in the type of God they've been trained to believe in. Logic, reason, science - to them these are all ploys by the devil to trick them. They believe that Trump has been sanctified by their God as a righteous man who is here to help us and nothing anyone says will change their minds (until one day their pastor says that they have to believe in a whole new set of heroes and then they'll unapologetically switch immediately. It feels like they're gaslighting us but they're the ones who are lost. I've come to view these people as extraordinarily dangerous and I avoid them.)

"Compared to most people, studies have shown that authoritarian followers get their beliefs and opinions from the authorities in their lives, and hardly at all by making up their own minds. They memorize rather than reason. "

https://theauthoritarians.org/48-2/

https://theauthoritarians.org/

Hence the Chump administration is attacking one of the few avenues to well-paid professional careers that these American and foreign-born women have open to them. I think it's despicable, but that's the main reason for this attack.

I dug a coat button out of my old, old, old, stuff left over from the 60's and once again have started wearing it on my coat when I go out:

IGNORANCE SHOULD BE PAINFUL

Mental gymnast masquerading as RN whines about not getting overtime from greedy corporate bosses.

She is not someone to be trusted in an emergency.

...and that those will soon follow. It'd be interesting to see how she rationalizes that.

From Newsweek it affects the following groups:
..,nursing, physician assistants, physical therapists and audiologists, architects, accountants, educators, and social workers, engineering, a business master's, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology

Most (maybe all?) of these occupations require professional licensing by state boards / not regulated by Feds, and some of the fields listed are male dominated. Everyone is still a professional who carries a professional state license.

When the loans needed to afford the program are no longer allowed because you aren’t a professional by DoE decree?

We already have shortages in all of these fields. Who will educate the next generation of nurses or teachers? Graduate preparation is REQUIRED for these positions.

many magat nurses before retiring. Great nurses, but....well, magats. I gave up sense in conversation and focused on the patients, otherwise just marking time until retirement.

They'll never stop twisting themselves into pretzels to defend whatever tangeranus does. You see posts on social media or wherever, "What will it take for those voters to turn...to admit they made a mistake? " They'll never do it. They'll do complete 180's every day if that's what's required of them.

"No wars!"
"Oh, Venezuela is pouring drugs into the US. We HAVE to go to war with them"

"Great economy!"
"Well, to fix all of the problems others left behind we're going to have to feel pain for a while"

4 of the 5 had similar logic

the WH makes.

I don't think that the left/center has fully understood the power of the propaganda that is out there. Saturation of right wing talk radio, unabashed, falsehood-spewing news channels on the TV and now limitless internet to spread their insane rantings. All relentlessly available 24/7/365. We now have a segment of America walking around in completely different realities from what is actually going on. The right now in the process of taking over the alphabet networks, too.

With some exceptions we have basically sat, being dumped on with the hope that some "journalist" will start a wave of honest reporting. It's not happening. They just get rid of anyone who strays from the script or publicly destroy them.

A lot saw this coming decades ago, but we still are in the same place.

Between the churches, the media, social groups, work hierarchy, even schools, the reich-wing bubble is all-encompassing for much of the country.
And sadly much of the left, voters and leadership, are just now beginning to wake up to how much of the country's zeitgeist has been poisoned.

I think it was ignored instead, counting on some sort of imaginary cavalry to come and make it right. The Fairness Doctrine enabled in the 1950's at the advent of home television made it clear what could happen if corporations got a grip of news organizations.

It could be countered somewhat now perhaps, but it is going to take a lot of money and work to do that. The news is no longer impartial and riding the glimmers of hope that it still is, is a waste of time. We need news that is from our point of view, namely facts and debunking the other guy's lies.

Like I said, a lot of money and a lot of work.

Her 'logic' does not makes any sense.
At all.

To justify women dying in parking lots from ectopic pregnancies and other forms of denying women their health care. Bastards

They're everywhere.

Texas for which I worked for thirty years suddenly classified all registered nurses as management. This was about 1990. They did it retroactively. Our paychecks were short and when we asked why they told us that we were now management. Also the first hour over our shift we were paid nothing. And in a large teaching hospital virtually all nurses stayed over at least 15-30 minutes every day. These policies lasted more than a decade. The hospital board and ceo were incredibly well-connected politically, and no help was forthcoming from the labor board or courts

When I would mention to US born nurses that the hospital was stealing from us on every paycheck and that if we had a union this theft would stop, the nurses would look at me like I was either crazy or possessed by the devil. They would usually proclaim their hate for unions.

It doesn't affect her, she's got her education and loans. Fuck everybody else and pull up the ladder. I've got a Magat neice who just got her graduate degree and loans and is a Nurse Practitioner or something now. She couldn't care less, because she got hers. Less competition going forward.