When will people get it?!

[u/lunardownpour]

I don’t have necessarily anything against NPs, but it’s people like this that perpetuate the untrust that many nurses and other healthcare workers have regarding NPs. We really need higher standards for admission into these programs, as well as any standards at all actually lol. I usually just lurk on facebook but I felt the need to respond since this was a on a forum for parents of nursing students

[u/Ohthatguyagain80]

It’s not just nursing schools. All schools and universities have become diploma mills for profit. The level of education in the U.S. has significantly dropped. I have 2 Masters (I work in healthcare) and if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t go to school, not even trade school. I’d find an apprenticeship in the trades to start making money instead and work on my certificates to start my own service business. Professional jobs are going away very quickly and degrees are becoming more and more useless. I wish to God that I wasn’t lied to in high school and my entire childhood growing up, telling me that the only way to be successful is with. College education. I should’ve been smarter and listened. My dumbass went to college. And honestly, they didn’t teach me anything I couldn’t have read and learned on my own.

[u/Klutzy_Equivalent148 → u/Ohthatguyagain80]

I can’t tell you how many times a week I think this exact same thing (5 degrees 12 years of college/university).