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The short answer: no — the available reporting shows was not fired from his nursing job and was employed as an ICU registered nurse at the at the time of his death . Multiple fact‑checks and news outl...
Multiple reputable news outlets and nursing organizations report that the social-media claim had been fired from his nursing job is false; contemporaneous reporting describes him as an active ICU nurs...
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and a related Department of Education rule change removed nursing and several other health programs from the department’s list of “professional degree...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved to stop classifying many graduate nursing programs as “professional degrees,” a change that affects loan caps and borrowing access ...
The U.S. Department of Education has redefined which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” and that new definition excludes many nursing programs — including MSN/DNP and advanced practice...
There is no sourced record in the provided reporting that former President Donald Trump said nurses are “not professional professionals” or used that exact phrase; available reporting shows the Depart...
The immediate cause cited by critics is a Department of Education proposal to exclude nursing from the federal definition of “professional degree,” which would affect loan eligibility and forgiveness ...
Federal documents and contemporary reporting show that the U.S. Department of Education’s long-standing regulatory definition of “professional degree” (dating to the 1960s) did not explicitly list nur...
The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated-rulemaking and proposals narrowed which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 11 fields and using criteria like ...
Major news outlets and multiple reporting outlets say the Department of Education under the Trump administration changed its regulatory list of what it calls “professional” degree programs, excluding ...
The Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking in November 2025 proposed a much narrower definition of “professional degree” that would make many graduate programs ineligible for the higher loan ...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 10–11 traditional fields (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, ...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed excluding nursing from the federal definition of “professional degree” programs used for certain federal loan rules — a change t...
Available reporting shows no citation in the supplied sources that Donald Trump personally said nurses are “unprofessional” or used that exact language; instead, recent controversy centers on the Trum...
The Department of Education’s 2026 rulemaking would adopt a much narrower legal definition of “professional degree,” recognizing roughly a small set of traditional fields as professional and excluding...
Federal rulemaking in late 2025 by the U.S. Department of Education proposes a new definition of “professional degree” that, according to multiple nursing organizations, would exclude many graduate nu...
Coverage shows that the Trump administration — via the Department of Education implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — removed graduate nursing (and several other health and education programs) ...
The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and related Department of Education guidance reclassify many nursing graduate and advanced programs so they are no longer listed among “profession...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal dramatically narrows which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” cutting a list reported at roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and reco...
The U.S. Department of Education’s recent regulatory change narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” and multiple outlets report that nursing (including MSN and DNP programs) w...