published on its website<\/a>, says the change disproportionately harms cash-strapped students who rely on loans to seek higher degrees.<\/p>\n\u201cThe announcement took me by surprise,\u201d McLaughlin said. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone would have expected us to be in this category. How would we continue to grow the profession?\u201d<\/p>\n
The nursing shortage is already dire.<\/p>\n
According to the Health Resources and Services Administration, authorities project a shortage of more than 63,700 full-time registered nurses by 2030.<\/p>\n
Through 2032, more than 193,000 registered nurses will be needed to fill job openings each year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n
The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse workforce, which includes nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists, will require about 29,000 new hires a year to meet the rising demand for primary and specialty care.<\/p>\n
McLaughlin said UPMC will work to circumvent the effects of the new loan exclusion by continuing to offer tuition reimbursement to employed nurses seeking advanced degrees.<\/p>\n
The health system also is adding $23 million for wage increases for its nonunion nurses this year.<\/p>\n
Gloria Kreps, a UPMC spokesperson, said the starting base wage for nonunion inpatient nurses in urban hospitals with a four-year BSN degree will be $41.75 an hour. Starting rate for nonunion inpatient nurses in urban hospitals with non-bachelor degrees will be $40 an hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat, in combination with the tuition reimbursement, will help them be able to go back to school,\u201d McLaughlin said. \u201cIt\u2019s important that we meet this need.\u201d<\/p>\n
UPMC last week celebrated the graduation of more than 380 nursing students across seven campuses, with nearly 80% of the students accepting jobs within the health care system.<\/p>\n
McLaughlin said she is hopeful the new ruling will be reversed, especially after more than 100 members of Congress submitted a letter to the Department of Education on Dec. 12 to argue against it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can clearly see the tie,\u201d McLaughlin said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have the advanced degrees, you stifle the pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A move by the Trump administration to exclude nursing from a list of professional degrees for student loan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-365677","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\/365677","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=365677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}