The thing with nursing is that there is such a broad spectrum of different types of nurses, from acute care to mental health to community nursing to long term care to pediatrics... There's just so many different jobs that it's hard to define all nurses in one category.    Plus there are different levels of education: some have Ph.Ds, some only went to community college for two years. I do agree that many nurses are fucking idiots (I am a nurse myself and a lot of my colleagues are so incompetent I honestly wonder how they manage not to burn their own houses down every night), but some are very intelligent.  That being said, I truly believe that if I can do this job, pretty much anyone could.