A stereotype is simply a widely held belief that an individual is a member of a certain group based on charcteristics. Due to the process of overgeneralization within social perception, stereotyping leads to a great deal of inaccuracy in social perception. Sex, race, age, sexual orentation, religion and physical ability are various catagories which exist in stereotyping. The most prevalent and controversial forms are sex and race.
General Education. Registered nurse education programs require you to complete a core curriculum. Core courses usually include, but are not limited to, English composition, developmental or life-span psychology and basic sociology. Although less common, some nursing schools may require you to pass a course in ethics, religion, logic or philosophy.
So yes, there are a lot of potentially difficult science courses, depending on your ability, your motivation, and your background. But you don't need more than algebra, and many nurses seem to manage just fine forgetting much of the theory they have learned. There is room for the nurse who just follows instructions, but there is also a great need for nurses who can function on the fly and in a crisis, and they usually need to retain more of the background they so laboriously leaned (think ICU, OR, ER, Labor and Delivery, PAR).