[evoloution]

So are you hoping to be treated by nurses who are worse academically than the ones we have now? Or are you hoping that "others" will be treated by them while increased supply depresses wages for the good ones that you think will treat you? Also being a nurse is a very hard job, most people wouldn't last a year as an ER nurse in the US.

[kjkjadksj]

We make them take classes like organic chemistry where they have to memorize the reaction of various metal catalysts. Calculus. Physics. These are all two semester classes that are considered hard in undergrad. And yet the nurse will never ever use what they learn in these classes outside them. They aren’t the ones synthesizing the drugs.

[nradov]

That's misinformation. Most BSN programs don't include those course requirements.

https://www.sjsu.edu/nursing/programs/bsn.php

[s1artibartfast]

how much worse were nurses when it was a 2 years occupational program or associates degree?

[nradov]

Huh? There have been multiple levels of nursing for many decades, probably longer than you've been alive. At the lowest level a CNA or LPN doesn't even need an Associate's Degree.

https://www.usa.edu/blog/levels-of-nursing-explained/