A proposed rule from the Department of Education would limit graduate students enrolled in advanced practice nursing programs to borrowing a maximum of $20,500 per year and $100,000 for life.
“This rule is short-sighted, because this is a time in our nation’s health care system where we need more people taking care of patients, not fewer,” Todd Pickard, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, FASCO, president and chair of the board of the American Association of Physician Assistants, told Healio. “When you change how you finance education, what you are really impacting is the number of people who are going to go