The biggest PR scam in nursing history is unfolding
We can’t talk about student loan caps without talking about why tuition has gotten so high, far beyond the rate of inflation. Saddling nurses with more and more debt, without any accountability is horrible.
Now with NP degrees headed towards the DNP level, nurses will be graduating with similar debt to physicians coming out of medical school.
Lets also remember damn near every NP school in the US are in direct violation of CCNE standards to provide their students with appropriate clinical rotations. The VAST majority of programs openly force their students to find their own preceptors, or either sit out a semester/year, or even worse turn to predatory private preceptor companies, charging thousands out of pocket for students to be able to graduate on time.
Nursing academia and graduate education have traded the professional integrity of our trade for money. We are quickly headed towards a tipping point of obscurity as more and more degree mill programs churn out ill prepared and inexperienced NP’s, further diluting our professional reputation.
The future is looking very bad. We need sustainable growth that promotes quality over quantity, and not at the expense of massive student loan debt.