Nursing Degree Requirements

As I read through the recent articles from the UK: "Nurses: if a degree means that much to your self-esteem why not become a doctor?" and "How will a degree help a frightened patient?" these articles point out that the new developments concerning nursing school "improvements" need to be focused on more than just academic training as implied in getting a degree, and nurses need to want to care for the patient above anything else...

However, it did not provide a direct disadvantage of nurses having degrees. Except, maybe, that degrees will cost more money. And that is a common observation that degree holders tend to avoid "getting their hands dirty" and therefore not doing a good job at being a nurse that requires some "dirty work".

My initial opinion was, people who aspire to be nurses should get all the education and training that they can get. But is education the same as training? I realize that the situation is more complicated than that...

Read through the articles here and here. And let me know what you think.

You can also read more about it on these other articles with differing opinions as well:
Move to degrees 'could deter talented would-be nurses
It's about time we gave nurses a degree of respect