Why Do We Say "Nursing School"?

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I catch myself saying it, and I read it all of the time on these boards - Why do we refer to our time spent getting our nursing education as "nursing school"? We attended college and got a degree in the profession of nursing, and saying "nursing school" feels a bit degrading to me when I think about it... I don't think other professions do this - Ever heard of "accounting school", "lawyer school", "human resources school", engineering school"??

Let's fight about it. Military school.

:)

Ranger school.

The United States Army | Fort Benning

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Specializes in CTICU.

I busted my hump to get into nursing school, you better believe I'm proud as a peacock to say that I'm in it

Also, I second ranger school

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Specializes in Med Surg.
I catch myself saying it, and I read it all of the time on these boards - Why do we refer to our time spent getting our nursing education as "nursing school"? We attended college and got a degree in the profession of nursing, and saying "nursing school" feels a bit degrading to me when I think about it... I don't think other professions do this - Ever heard of "accounting school", "lawyer school", "human resources school", engineering school"??

Because it is different. By a damn sight.

I went through "engineering school" Nursing School made engineering school look like freaking Romper Room.

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Specializes in hospice.
Because it is different. By a damn sight.

I went through "engineering school" Nursing School made engineering school look like freaking Romper Room.

Oh, it is not. Nursing school is where you go to become a nurse. Why should nursing have some obsessively unique terminology that even Army Rangers don't feel necessary?

I'll be sure to tell my daughter that nursing will make her career designing spacecraft and new propulsion systems for them look like Romper Room, which I am unfortunately old enough to remember.

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

I usually refer to it as my "nursing program" I don't know why.

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.
Oh, it is not. Nursing school is where you go to become a nurse. Why should nursing have some obsessively unique terminology that even Army Rangers don't feel necessary?

I'll be sure to tell my daughter that nursing will make her career designing spacecraft and new propulsion systems for them look like Romper Room, which I am unfortunately old enough to remember.

I have a bunch of friends that are legit rocket scientists! I wouldn't call it romper room.

Honestly, nursing is hard - mostly because it's a different way of thinking - but I don't think it's any harder than any other applied science. Maybe more time consuming due to clinicals. But I think the "ermahgod nursing is the hardest thing ever" talk is overrated. But I'm only a baby nursing student. And it's a second career for me. So maybe that's why I think that.

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Well before I went to nursing school I went to beauty school.

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

What annoys me is when people call it Nurse's Training. Ick. Should I start a new thread?

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What annoys me is when people call it Nurse's Training. Ick. Should I start a new thread?

(Please don't ... :))

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My university had 4 undergraduate schools- The School of Arts and Sciences, The School of Management, The School of Education and The School of Nursing. It's called nursing school because that's what it is.

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This my first time posting here. I have been looking at these boards for a while, and I just finally decided to sign up. I have to say though, this is a dumb question. Are you really a nurse?

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Wow, reading the OP's post makes me wonder why some people just can't wait to have something to feel offended by.

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