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The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and related Education Department rule changes removed nursing (including graduate nursing programs like MSN and DNP) from the Department’s list of...
The available reporting ties several Trump-era actions to nurses’ education funding, labor tools, scope-of-practice guidance, and regulatory rollbacks that can affect staffing, pay, and workplace safe...
The Trump administration’s actions most directly affecting nurse practitioner (NP) scope-of-practice in federal policy were regulatory and executive directives expanding APRN practice and, separately,...
Federal nurse-practitioner reimbursement and related payment rules under the Trump administration were shaped by competing professional lobbying: physician groups pressing to protect physician-led pay...
Regulatory changes between 2017–2020 did alter nurse practitioner (NP) scope-of-practice in several ways: by 2017, 22 states plus D.C. already allowed full practice authority and during 2020 many stat...
Nursing and nurse practitioner (NP) organizations are actively lobbying and advocating to have nursing and NP graduate programs treated as “professional degrees” after the U.S. Department of Education...
Between 2017 and 2021 federal agencies made several Medicare- and policy-level changes that affected how nurses — especially advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and nonphysician practitioners ...
The Department of Labor (DOL) itself did not publish sweeping new federal “scope‑of‑practice” rules for nurses during the Trump administration in the materials provided; instead, Trump‑era federal act...
Federal recognition of advanced practice roles has driven creation of an APRN Compact that would let APRNs hold one multistate license and practice across member states, but the Compact is not yet ope...
State-level changes to nursing "scope of practice" (SOP) during 2017–2021 occurred unevenly across the U.S.; several academic studies and policy summaries note that some states loosened NP/APRN restri...