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Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – April 2026: US Dept. of Ed Releases Final Rule Excluding Nursing From Professional-Level Student Loan Financing

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded.   🚨Breaking News  Department of Education Releases Final Rule on Student Loan Limits Earlier today, the Department of Education released its unpublished final rule on student loan [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – March 2026

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded.   Advocacy & Engagement    102 Representatives Support FY 2027 Funding for Title VIII in House Dear Colleague Letter On March 27, a record one hundred [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – February 2026

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded.   Advocacy & Engagement  NCC Sends Letter Urging Congress to Pass the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2025 On February 12, all sixty-five members [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – January 2026

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded.   Advocacy & Engagement  NCC Sends Letter to Congress Supporting Full-Year FY 2026 Appropriations for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs and the National Institute of [...]

OADN Statement on Alex Jeffrey Pretti

As nurses, our commitment is to safeguard health, dignity, and human life. We know that violence and fear have no place in professional care settings or within our communities, regardless of who perpetrates them. The Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) stands with the American Nurses Association’s call to action and refuses to normalize violence [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – December 2025

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded. Advocacy & Engagement  In Case You Missed It... The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has released a dashboard with data on its Health Workforce Programs. [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – November 2025

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded. Advocacy & Engagement  NCC Reiterates FY 2026 Appropriations Requests to Congressional Leadership and Appropriators On November 14, sixty-three members of the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) signed [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – October 2025

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded. Advocacy & Engagement  NCC Sends Letter to Department of Education on Implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill On October 31, fifty-seven members of the Nursing Community [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – September 2025

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded. Advocacy & Engagement  NCC Congressional Briefing on Ways to Support our Current and Future Nurses On September 4, the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) hosted a congressional [...]

Nursing Community Monthly Roundup – August 2025

OADN continues our federal advocacy on your behalf as a member of the Nursing Community Coalition, where we work to ensure nurses are supported and nursing education is funded. Advocacy & Engagement    NCC Statement on the Senate FY 2026 LHHS-ED Appropriations Bill On August 5, the Nursing Community Coalition issued a statement commending the […]