{"id":322908,"date":"2025-11-30T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:01:08","slug":"readers-respond-society-needs-federal-support-for-nursing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/322908\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers respond: Society needs federal support for nursing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/\" title=\"Navigate to Opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion<\/a>Published: Nov. 30, 2025, 7:30 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Graphic featuring the words &quot;Letters to the Editor&quot; beside a stack of Oregonian newspapers.\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DBQZO54GMBFMZNIJGB6OTPZT6A.jpg\"  \/>Letters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UYNPUQIMWRD23KXFJN7R53U3XI\">In the 1980s I was fortunate enough to receive a federal grant that made it possible for me to pursue a nursing graduate degree at OHSU. It forever changed my life for the better. I became a nurse practitioner and worked at Planned Parenthood and later at Portland Community College as a nursing program educator; I educated hundreds of students who are now taking care of people when they are in need. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2VJ3ZNU4RJAGPNYE2A27RIP6EU\">We all have experienced the difference a good nurse makes in our care. To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nursing-not-professional-degree-trump-admin-11079650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">take away these federal loans and grants<\/a> affects all of us in the future &#8211; not only the lives of nurses, but the health care outcomes of patients. Nurse practitioners are crucial in a system that needs professional health care providers. And who is going to educate the nurses for tomorrow if funding for graduate work is taken away today?<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2FREJERJKFAPXK6OR74H76YPGE\">Claudia Michel, Portland<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2Y74AZ4G7JHLJEPO6W4VPICIYE\">To read more letters to the editor, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oregonlive.com\/opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpinionPublished: Nov. 30, 2025, 7:30 a.m.Letters. In the 1980s I was fortunate enough to receive a federal grant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-322908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}