There's a huge reason for terminal degree holders to be equivalent in knowledge (DNP and MD/DO). It is a complete farce to pretend that DNPs are not practicing medicine. You can obscure what is going on by pretending a body of "Nursing knowledge" which just showed up in the 70s is distinct from medicine, but the useful parts are not.

This isn't about me going or not going to medical school. This is about the profession of nursing and how it is allowing itself to sit in indignity. Why am I not extremely proud to tell people that I am a Nurse? There's a reason for that, but you can bet that I will use my career to change that perception.

The Nursing curriculum is a joke. The leaders of the field have made a massive mistake by trying to distance the profession from medicine when it's clear that practicing medicine is the natural progression of practicing nursing in the clinic, as we can see with the DNP. Far too much of the curriculum is devoted to indulging this fantasy that many nurses are not being groomed to practice medicine.

If Nurses are going to be respected the curriculum should look almost exactly like the medical school curriculum. The only difference should be that the curriculum is aware that some individuals will stay midlevel providers while others will keep advancing.

I'm not saying fit medical school into a bachelors. I'm saying it should be essentially split into three (BSM, MSM, DMP) blocks which are in turn equivalent to an MD.

Like, how weird is it that BIOLOGY students are pre-med instead of Nursing students? Nursing students are by far the most prepared to be doctors of any major. It's bizarre that medicine is a doctoral level program with no bachelors, unlike virtually every other doctoral level degree.