Who wants to be a nurse? Anyone...Anyone...Bueller?

I think I've finally put my finger on what irritates me soooo much about the massess of people who are going into the nursing field and clogging up the programs so people like me cannot get started in a reasonable amount of time. I'm soooooo sick and tired of hearing about people who because they have:
1. Lost their job
2. Can't find a job
3. Haven't worked in X amount of years and have no skills
4. Been laid off from a job (automotive)
5. Want a "sure thing" job
have now decided to go into nursing as a career. WTF. What makes these people think they can just "go into nursing?" This really steams me. The fact is, 98% of these yahoos have no freakin' idea what a nurse does, much less stepped foot into a hospital other than to visit grandma who fell at Bingo and broke her hip. Know what pisses me off even more? The people who already have a bachelor's degree in whatever (basket weaving, accounting, engineering, teaching, etc.) that can get into an accelerated nursing program (accelerated because they already have the general education requirements for the bachelor's degree, all they need is the nursing core classes..lucky bastards) and graduate in 1 year with a bachelor of science-nursing. I'm pissed because these really are the people who have no idea what they're getting into. They're clogging up the system so dumb asses like me, who KNOW what they're getting into by going into the field, cannot get into the damn programs! Listen up, we already have PLENTY of shitty nurses, we NEED good nurses who know what they're doing and are ready to commit to the field and all of it's dysfunction.

Yes I'm jealous. Yes I know it shouldn't bother me but it does. Every time I hear, "Well I didn't know what I wanted to do so I'm going into nursing" or "Nurses make good money, I'm going into it so I can make the big bucks" (there is a reason nurses make good money, once you're in the field you'll realize that it isn't enough for the shit you deal with...literally.) or this one "I like to help people, that's why I want to become a nurse" I cringe. I can't help it. I feel protective of this career even though I'm not in it yet. It's odd. I want to protect it from the knuckleheads who'll screw it up. The best I can hope for is that the majority of these people fail out of the program so I get in faster.