Funny, as a patient I prefer the opposite. Higher educated nurses tend to play doctor, but I can't trust their opinion because they aren't real doctors. It comes at the cost of them listening poorly, for they carry the confidence of their degree.
There really are some amazing nurses and nurse practitioners out there. I am unhealthy and I have at least 1 medical appointment per week. I am literally indifferent to having a nurse practitioner or a medical doctor as my care provider.
Anyways, my endocrinologist is a nurse practitioner with a masters degree. I have a very rare autoimmune neurological disease, that affects my peripheral nervous system, that was initially blamed on type 1 diabetes complications.
In fact, its onset was so insidious that it looked just like "diabetes complications." My endocrinologist (you know, the nurse practitioner with a masters degree) sent my blood to the only lab in the US that tests for the disease I have...and it came back positive.
The rest is really history, and now I am getting proper treatment for it.
it isn't surprising that a nurse of 5 years on the post knows better than a doctor a year out of university because there's literally no reason she wouldn't.
source: nurse significant other having to tell better-paid (usually by a lot) newbie doctors what to do on the job
