HEALTHCARE. The current plan to reduce the amount of federal money students in graduate-level nursing programs can borrow is likely to worsen the nursing shortage, which many say is already at a “crisis” level. The rule is currently in the public comment period until March 2.
09 Feb 2026 | 03:33
Jane Gerencser, a registered nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y., said she has seen “cyclical” nursing shortages over the course of her career. She’s been an RN since 1989 and before that, she worked as a nurses’ aide and a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).
But now, she said, “we have a chronic,...
