I am late to the party and also biased being in psych, I’m but I would put it to you that it almost works the other way around in nursing... you need enough technical knowledge to not kill someone on day one, then develop your understanding of the particular pathophys that occur in your specialty.

Conversely, a lot of the reflective stuff isn’t second nature - even with experienced communicators. You need to understand how bias and background are affecting the way you (and others, including the treating team) are approaching the patient’s care, then play advocate. You have more face time with patients as a nurse than any other profession in the hospital setting, the sorts of information you can elicit to include in a ‘holistic’ care plan is unmatched.

There was a bit of fluffy bullshit in my nursing program, but if you think of nursing as equal parts technical clinical skills and therapeutic engagement, client centred care is suddenly very applicable.

With your background in EMT and interest in ED, I get where you are coming from - but nursing is much bigger than that, and the school has to produce a critical thinker who can value-add beyond cannulation and interpreting ABGs.