Help me understand

Not a commentary on all nurses, I love the vast majority of you and couldn’t do my job without you. This is speaking to one specifically segment of the nursing community I encounter at my job .

In general nurses are trained to be absolutely terrified to lose their license.

For many of this translates to the need for them to document every phone call with the doctor, the pharmacist, their charge nurse every page they get, going to great lengths to justify everything they are told to do even if it’s completely standard. They are asking for endless communication orders for common sense things to cover their butts.

Those same nurses after < 1-2 years at the bedside go on to be NPS, and completely full on practice medicine and make decisions with zero guidance and zero regard for harm that might come to patients. Act arrogantly and somehow have no fear of losing their license anymore.