https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-graduating-nursing-students-want-to-help-but-told-to-stay-home-instead/

As hospitals bring in traveling nurses and California urges retired medical professionals to volunteer their services amid the coronavirus pandemic, nursing students set to graduate this spring are being told to stay home.

Texas and Virginia in recent days have moved to loosen regulations and allow nursing students to join the workforce, but officials in the Golden State have not. Under normal circumstances, students need to log hundreds of clinical hours at hospitals to graduate and become licensed. But as the virus has swept across the state, hospitals have largely told them to stay home — putting their dreams of helping people on hold.