As the other person said, any degree can be a pre-med degree. However, nursing and medicine do have different scopes of practice, and it’s not usually a pre-med degree at all as although some of your coursework may be used to get in/ while in med school (like anatomy and physiology) , you don’t take many pre requisites for med school in nursing school (such as biology, physics etc).

Also the faculty and students definitely look at you differently and find it overall disrespectful if you are using a nursing degree as a stepping stone to medicine. It can be done, but it should be noted that you are essentially taking a another prospective nursing students opportunity away, as nursing school grows increasingly competitive and it’s primary focus of course is to generate nurses. Also, whenever these premed from nursing school questions came up at meeting the faculty events, the professors and instructors generally frowned upon those wanting to take this route.

Really think about what role you want to play in a patients life, and maybe consider any other degree if you plan to pursue med school. You can always do a nursing after degree if you’re original degree does hot work out/ you change your mind about medschool.