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One of my pet peeves on campus is the excessive pride that nurses seem to have in their career choice, wearing the scrubs around campus, always posting about it on social media, etc.

While I am generally peeved by any excess pride in others, I find it especially irksome in the case of nurses, since they are basically learning a glorified trade, like welding or carpentry.

Allow me to explain.

As a student of the liberal arts (studying natural sciences at liberal art uni), I have found that most academic disciplines, even those that lie on shaky epistemological footing (i.e. gender studies and other bullshit), seek to not only have the student learn assorted facts about the discipline, but form their mind in such a way that they can contribute to the discipline as a whole through research. All coursework is taught expressly for the purpose of getting the student to have sufficient knowledge to add to the collective understanding of their field.

Nursing, on the other hand, consists of learning procedures, facts and other rote operations. In essence, they learn that if they see x,y,z in a patient, then they follow procedure g. While, of course, there is some background knowledge that is required here to understand how to conduct the process, there is a certain rigidity to the way that they learn to think that is antithetical to the goal of higher education. They are merely learning a finite set of skills, not learning how and why these methods work on a theoretical level (to a meaningful extent).

While it is true that nurses do conduct research, I think we can all agree that the impact factor of these sorts of publications is virtually negligible when compared to the discipline that medical science that subsumes it.

In short, it just seems so stupid to me that people would go to college to 'study' (read inundate themselves) with mechanical, inert knowledge like that.

What do you idiots think?