‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student mental health crisis

Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:48AM (#19413997)

> It is still the case that many jobs (like nursing) are not taught at a university, simply because there is no path to academic research.

You can do research as a nurse. There are nurses with PhDs even.

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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by roel_v on Sunday March 17, 2019 @11:28PM (#19418503)

Yes there are nurses with PhD's. There are janitors and Uber drivers with PhD's, so what? You probably mean that some people, with nursing degrees, have done PhD research on nursing. That still doesn't mean that nursing is something that is inherently meant to lead towards research.

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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by mistrial9 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @12:52PM (#19414933)

in the US there are practicing nurses without a college degree, right now.. also nursing is not always unionized, especially in the South..

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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by chrisseaton on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:27PM (#19415466)

> in the US there are practicing nurses without a college degree, right now..

Ok? So what? I was replying to 'there is no path to academic research', and there is. Saying not everyone follows it is irrelevant to whether or not it exists.

> also nursing is not always unionized, especially in the South..

What on earth does that have to do with whether you can do research or not?

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