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There is a skillset required for nursing. But those skills can be taught. They are taught. What's stopping us from teaching them en-masse?
by nine_zeros 6y ago
There is a skillset required for nursing. But those skills can be taught. They are taught. What's stopping us from teaching them en-masse?
- dragonwriter 6y agoThe skills required to be a nuclear physicist can be taught, but that doesn't mean that they can be taught to anyone, regardless of aptitude. And nursing, in practice, requires more than just a specific set of trainable intellectual skills, it also requires physical and social skills and aptitudes,for which proficiency is less correlated with those for intellectual skills than it is across intellectual skills. And nursing (viewed broadly) skills are taught in mass, the nursing series of professions employs a huge number of people. RNs alone account for more than 1% of the entire US population, adding CNAs and LPN/LVNs, that goes up to a little under 2%.