Anonymous wrote:On the one hand, nurses are professional and many have 4 year college degrees now. On the other hand, they get paid by the hour and have to do a lot of physical tasks.

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RNs are blue collar if working a job that only requires as associates degree, even if they happen to have a bachelors.

If they go on to get a masters or higher and work in a position requiring that higher ed, then they are white collar

White collar.
Nursing now is much different than nursing 30 years ago, if you are an RN.

CNAs are blue color, and require much less education, but have a hard job.

Doctors, with all their education and knowledge, are white color.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Blue collar, just like doctors. Very respected, though.

In what world are doctors blue collar workers? Are you nuts?

Seriously.

Nurses are white color.

My dad was blue color and the best man I’ve ever known.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Blue collar, just like doctors. Very respected, though.

In what world are doctors blue collar workers? Are you nuts?

Agreed. Someone making $200,000 to $500,000 a year (depending on specialty) is most definitely NOT blue collar!

Most have graduate degrees now.

Anonymous wrote:I went to a highly ranked 4 year college and got my BSN. I had to take Organic Chemistry, Microbiology, Pathophysiology, A&P, Pharmocology along with Humanities, and nursing classes like OB/Gyn, Med-Surg and clinicals. It was a very demanding 4 years. I think nurses do not get the respect they deserve.

I agree with you, but I understand why. Most nurses don’t go to highly rank d 4 yr colleges. In my experience, most of the nurses like you work the floor for a short time then move on to highly level practitioner degrees such as NP, CRNA, CNS, DNP...

Many of the “regular” nurses have associate degrees. There also seems to be a very large draw to nursing for single moms and/or divorced women and those needing to find a new work where they can go to school for a relatively short time for (2 yr associate) and have a guaranteed job making decent money immediately following graduation. Nurses isn’t their calling, it is just the easiest way to make a wage high enough to support a family with relatively minimal yrs commented to school and low risk of not finding a job.