PITTSBURGH —

The Trump administration plans to exclude nurses from the professional category of college degrees as part of a plan to cap federal student loans, raising concerns among healthcare professionals about the potential impact on the nursing workforce.

"I was pretty shocked at all the people that I saw on the list, but especially nurses. I feel like we hold a title of professionalism every day that we walk into a hospital," said Ashley Grieco, a registered nurse at UPMC Magee Women's Hospital. Advertisement

The plan, part of the "big beautiful bill," would limit federal student loan forgiveness for nurses to $20,000 a year, even if they work in public service fields for a certain number of years.

"If you are a teacher or a nurse and you work a certain amount of years within th

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