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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Don't fuck with the nurses, bro.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago

I hope he gets a nurse with a fake degree the next time they have to rush his fat ass to Walter Reed.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Minutes since a trump friend/sycophant said something incomprehensibly stupid: 0

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago

I feel like this is related to H1B visas. The Trump admin wants to ban them and one barrier I think was most of our nurses for hospice etc are immigrants (I'm filipino, this is known), so banning H1Bs would impact nursing. This may be their way of banning H1Bs while keeping the nurses around. Unsure of how nursing relates to the H1B program, I'm a software engineer my experience with it is from coworkers having the visas.

[-] n0respect@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I'm sure this affects student loans and education grants as well.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 3 points 21 hours ago

Its for RNs who want to become APRNs/NPs. "Professionals" meant things like doctor and lawyer, and required a grad program. It won't affect nursing as an associates (RN) or bachelor's (BSN).

That being said, Healthcare CEOs fucking LOVE them some APRNs, so this will get changed back within a year I'd bet.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

Nor is architecture and engineering is up in the air.

[-] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Welp maybe this is his way of saying he doesn’t need a nurse

[-] y2imm@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Knew it, glad I dumped my US license and saved some $$$

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

What does that even mean? You either have a student loan or you don’t.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sure let's cut back the amount of available nurses to an already struggling count of nurses why not. May as well just say "don't be a nurse, we don't value it." Getting the same treatment as teachers now it seems like.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

If they make government work they can't keep lying about how it does not work.

Weel, they're never going to stop lying.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 day ago

biggest employer in many states btw, it's like they want the economy to crash

[-] abbiistabbii 10 points 1 day ago

Step one: Get into power Step two: Crash the economy Step Three: buy up every on the cheap whike destroying welfare and anything you want rid of. Step four: Monopolies for the rich, corporoticracy for everyone else.

[-] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 14 points 1 day ago

they do. they want to rule the ashes.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

...Here we may reign secure, and in my choice

To reign is worth ambition though in hell:

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

Lucifer: Paradise Lost

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago

It’s an attack on women. Nursing has historically been one of the only accepted paths for women to make a living wage. It’s an equivalent wage to the construction or police profession that is typically male dominated. I expect to see a lot of attacks on women’s ability to be self sufficient in the coming years. Subjugation and forced birth is the goal.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Probably has a lot to do with their decades-long assault on teaching, too.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Agreed. Teaching and nursing also usually lead to student debt unlike construction and police jobs

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Haven't looked at what nurses made in 20 years, but why do I feel like I'm going to be sad when I find out they make the same as police.

[-] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 30 points 1 day ago

Well you're welcome in Canada where you're still considered an essential service, which absolutely has "professional" all over it.

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[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 170 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's fine. I'll ask my wife and her friends, a mix of NPs, PAs, and RNs, if they recognize the current administration as professional.

Answer will be no and they can kick rocks.

This is also clearly be design to cut peoples access to education as well as reduce the total number of healthcare workers. A double whammy.

[-] jwiggler@slrpnk.net 65 points 2 days ago

My partner is a nurse here in the Northeast. Unfortunately a lot of her coworkers are Trumpies.

Most of them are practically disengaged from politics and only follow their (male) partner's political beliefs. If they're from one of the surrounding rural (white and low income) areas, the chances they're like this are higher. Not shockingly, a fair amount of their partners are cops.

It's strange and disheartening to hear about nurses she works with who flaunt that they won't get the covid vaccine, who denigrate patients with substance abuse disorder, who verbalize that they would rather not treat a trans person, and who treat black and brown folks like a different species. But it's definitely a trend in nursing culture up here.

Its especially difficult for my partner who chose this path in large part because of her acute sense of empathy. The state of healthcare is just bad here.

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Most of them are practically disengaged from politics and only follow their (male) partner’s political beliefs. If they’re from one of the surrounding rural (white and low income) areas, the chances they’re like this are higher. Not shockingly, a fair amount of their partners are cops.

Also, some of them have scary levels of religious fanaticism.

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[-] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago

Fellas, is it good when I stop funding nursing education in the middle of a nurse shortage

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[-] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Awesome! Just as I was going to start nursing school next year. This could not be better news!! 😭

[-] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 7 points 1 day ago

try to go abroad where nurses are still valued.

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