I think you're spot on, I agree quite a bit with u/gaz384384 and think he has a point about the PR aspect though. I get why RNs get caught in the crossfire, because well, NP students are typically floor nurses and bring a lot of the same shitty know it all but not really attitudes with them. But I see RNs get tossed under the bus a lot, and when you shit on the RN role you're also shitting on all the allied health professionals as well.

There's not a whole lot of difference length of training wise between an RN and a respiratory therapist, paramedic, rad tech, med lab tech, so on and so forth. The biggest difference is that those roles is that they don't have an NP equivalent. But there have been more than a couple posts that I've read that have made me think, "damn, if they think all these ICU/floor/ER/whatever nurses are useless/stupid/no knowledge whatsoever then they must really think the other health professions are flaming morons", which then turns it into an us vs them.

Personally I'm 900% on board with the aggressively knocking the NPs down in the way this sub has. I love seeing all the statistics comparing the education and have always advocated friends/family see a physician rather than the NPs that are so prevalent in our rural area. But I think a lot of the other health professionals don't take so kindly to the thought that the knowledge/experience they hold will never hold worth in any situation compared to a physician. The tricky part is acknowledging the different roles input and still realizing that the doc is the team leader, and realizing when you are out of your element in terms of questioning them, and that's where the whole would-be-NP tends to cross the line.