With the nursing shortage and people wanting nurses to STAY....i'm thinking that if hospitals would agree to pay off school loans for time worked, that would keep a LOT of people in the profession for longer. I mean my DH and i owe 20K between the 2 of us. That SUCKS.........if someone would pay it off for us in exchange for work we'd GLADLY jump on that bandwagon. Maybe we should have that legislated....