What *is* a professional nurse?

ok, I've just confirmed with a physical therapist from Italy (nursing school classmate) what is annoying us both. There doesn't seem to be much emphasis on actual medical knowledge, yet there's lip service to it. As in... there are poorly edited medical passages in the text book that are clearly just lifted from somewhere else, without an effort to adjust everything to the same level of complexity and understanding level. Then the lecture teachers clearly don't understand what they're talking about; they're just glossing over, and can't answer questions to the same depth as presented in the text. They have advanced degrees in *nursing* but have substantial gaps in their *medical* knowledge. (in lab, an instructor gave the wrong name for a major bone, and at least 5 of 20 students trained in other countries knew she was wrong).