"Nursing" not a professional degree?
Glasnost and perestroika come to America
It's about patient care and a long overdue restructuring or perestroika of the way it's delivered in medical settings.
The female-centric term is altogether too reminiscent of overwhelmingly foreign young women breastfeeding infants, fluffing pillows, changing bedsheets, and walking around with swishing skirts at the hospital. There are "male nurses" too, and even when the work is necessary and appropriate, requiring male size and strength in some cases, the term is uncomfortable or somewhat unsuitable for men, and creates a situation of old-fashioned bondage where a man involved in patient care is a sitting duck for false sexual charges in certain parishes or districts.
Nevertheless the Bible specifically mentions a male nurse named Achiacharus who "did nourish" Tobit, that is, cared for him in that capacity, when he went blind after falling asleep under the swallow's nest and the physicians refused to help him.
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It is not appropriate in that female-centric context to describe nurses or nursing degrees as "advanced" as if "coming forward" with blouses unbuttoned. When young women are too "forward" or presumptuous, we need to have the openness or glasnost to acknowledge the realities of human trafficking and prostitution especially with respect to orderlies or nursing assistants.
Nurses in the field desiring professional degrees should instead be encouraged toward straight medical school with some work credit to be arranged for pre-med course prerequisites. It's not a light undertaking. There's a skill with the knife and with healthful regimens of foods, drinks, medications, physical exercise and rest to be accounted for in the profession at a certain point.