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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Nurses take on Trump for downgrading training as not ‘professional’ and costing them thousands in student loans

During her 30-plus years working as a registered ICU nurse in a bustling New York City hospital, Nancy Hagans has seen it all.

“I could take care of somebody with a gunshot wound,” Hagans, who works in a Category 1 trauma center at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, told The Independent. “I could take care of someone who had a hemorrhagic bleed in the brain. It could be someone who had an aortic rupture. It's a very high-level skill. It’s a challenge.”

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