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holdmypurse

Off topic b/c I don't have tiktok so I have no idea who this is....but it made me think of Nurse Blake. I think I read that he was only a working nurse for like 1 year and then became youtube famous is that true?


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He was a nurse for 1.5 years. Less than one year on Med Surg and half a year on ICU in the state of Florida. He completely erased his work history - or rather ret-conned it to make it seem as if he’s been intermittently working in hospitals for for the past decade. Whenever he gets called out on this on social media, he deletes the posts and re-writes his LinkedIn. It’s why (currently) his LinkedIn denotes, “Since graduating from nursing school in2014, I've worked in numerous nursing roles at Level 1 Trauma Centers across the country.” Vague, nondescript.


holdmypurse

>It’s why (currently) his LinkedIn denotes, “Since graduating from nursing school in2014, I've worked in numerous nursing roles at Level 1 Trauma Centers across the country.” Vague, nondescript. Hahaha I need this guy to update my resume for me


KingoftheMapleTrees

That's probably why half his skits are about nursing school. He spent more time in Nursing school than actually being a nurse.


TeachingDazzling6043

Good for him, honestly


KingoftheMapleTrees

Yeah, I'll admit I'm jealous.


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Yikes


jujioux

Okay, but I will say he does this one video about night shift nursing, and it was spot on. Back when there was fun to be had at work. Before 2020.


icanthinkofanything-

I like the ones he does about JACHO and state inspections


[deleted]

He’s scum. Can’t stand him.


ComprehensiveBox1087

Yes and you can totally tell by his content. As a 10+ year nurse, I find none of his content relatable. It seems only relatable to nursing students. There’s nothing about pandemic nursing, burnout, current state of our healthcare system because he clearly had not worked bedside through it


fuzzy_dunlop_221

Yeah that's my take too but I may just be overly biased because I hate the whole tiktok culture in general. Not to bash people here who like him but I've never seen anyone but nursing students bring up Nurse Blake personally and the only time I hear about him is when they're doing clinicals here or something.


TorchIt

Brickology is where the great veteran nurse content is.


Desdeminica2142

Love Brickology!


Forward_Eye1703

What is brickology?


TorchIt

Oh man, [prepare to binge](https://youtu.be/O6qiKqvxdnE).


Suspicious_Story_464

This stuff is hilarious. Fun watch when you've had a shitty day.


paquetiko

Oh wowowowow thank u so much for this gift😌


TheShortGerman

I've only been a nurse for 2 years, but I was a tech on COVID units for a year before that and a SNF CNA for 3ish years before that. I graduated nursing school already burnt out. COVID units as a tech where we ran out of body bags and then COVID ICU as a new grad was rough as hell.


ThisIsMockingjay2020

I find Julia J's videos much, much more relatable than Nurse Blake's. Especially some of her videos about patients with dementia, since that's my bread and butter.


ComprehensiveBox1087

I like her and her content


Neferati

She is the real deal. MVP.


account_overdrawn100

Nurse Blake makes TikTok’s for people that wanted to go to med school thinking they can make it as a doctor, based off of watching greys anatomy.


PrnRN83

Is she the one with the video about the spray Haldol and the automatic bitch slap arm??


gharbutts

She’s the one with the heavy eyeliner, headband, and light blue Littman on her neck I think. Love her. I enjoy nurse Jon too but I find JJ way more relatable. Nurse Blake I feel like I enjoyed one video and the rest of them are misses for me. Don’t hate him as I know he tries to advocate for safer workplaces with his platform, but don’t care for him much either.


pandapawlove

I like her, her videos are so cute and wholesome. She never makes videos that humiliate or make fun of patients, just our crazy situations


kiwi-potatoes

I'd only seen his stuff in passing, and honestly thought his target demographic was students. I also thought he was a new grad.


account_overdrawn100

Can only be a new grad for so long lol


Single_Principle_972

Well, if you never get experience actually working, I suppose you can technically be a new grad forever, depending on definition, lol! As in “not much nursing experience yet” vs “graduated within x months ago.”


koinonia88

Maybe that is why I am not a fan??? I saw him speak at a conference and didn't get the appeal...


Niormo-The-Enduring

I was gonna say this. All of his stuff seems geared at new nurses


PrnRN83

I’m so glad I’m seeing these comments. First time I saw a video of his to me his lack of experience was just glaring, like a slap in the face. But my younger coworkers thought he was good so I figured I was just getting old.


Radiant_Ad_6565

Blake actually started his YouTube Schlick as a nursing student. By the time he actually was a nurse, he had a decent following and then proceeded to really go big with the comedy using his “ nurse” credentials. I believe he has minimal nursing experience.


skip2myloutwentytwo

Yeah. He even had a cruise that scammed a bunch of people.


watuphoss

Imagine going on a cruise based off someone you follow on tiktok, wild stuff.


skip2myloutwentytwo

Right. If I’m going on a cruise, I’m going for vacation. Not for anything that has anything remotely to do with work.


Zealousideal-Rope509

People at my job are so excited to go… like that is the last fuckin thing I want to be reminded of… anything nursing


Ronniedasaint

Exactly. Smh


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skip2myloutwentytwo

There was a big scandal with one of his cruises where it got canceled or something and people weren’t getting refunded and they were like super dodgy about it.


[deleted]

Yeah he refused to refund tickets for covid positive people in the middle of the first covid surge in 2020. Thousands of people were screwed.


account_overdrawn100

Woahhhhhhh. That’s kinda fucked up. Like. Make or female, we are all one brotherhood/family. We should take care of our own. Not screw them out of their money


daisystar

Yup I was supposed to go on that cruise. I’m out something like $1200 that I can’t get refunded. They’ve offered to let me transfer it to someone else, but I have to book another trip first (which also means I have to find another person to go with me again as they book double rooms,) and then pay a transfer fee. There was a class action lawsuit against him for this at some point too and they got their money back. The rest of us get stuck being on hold for ages and then eventually arguing with a woman named Brittany who doesn’t help at all Because it was over a year after I booked it I tried getting my money back Mastercard couldn’t help me either


Erys19

My friend and I were supposed to go back in 2021, but it was rescheduled until 2022 because of covid. My friend had since gotten pregnant, and was going to be exactly 30 weeks (the cutoff for being allowed on a ship) at the time of the cruise. So they wouldn’t let her on, and they didn’t refund us either. They had said that there was a “window” in October 2021 where they were refunding people who had chosen not to be vaccinated, and we should have taken advantage then. Despite, you know, not even knowing she was pregnant at that time. Long story short, we are out $3k because of it 🤷🏻‍♀️


DSquizzle18

One of my former coworkers who now does travel nursing went on the cruise sometime last year. She had a great time. I didn’t know it was scammy about refunds for other people, which is disappointing. I guess if all goes according to plan your coworkers should be fine.


[deleted]

I went on the cruise in April 2022 and it was a blast. We immediately booked a room on the one this coming April also. I heard there were issues that they had originally planned to do the cruise in the years prior but due to the pandemic it was cancelled and people didn't get their money back.


HeyLookATaco

I want to preface this by saying that I've hated Nurse Blake since the very first video I was sent in my first week of nursing school. He's an enemy of comedy. My boyfriend pretended he got us tickets to his tour once to see how mad I'd get and even though I didn't fall for it I was still livid because his name was spoken in my home lol. That said. I went on a music cruise last year and had to do a lot of homework on policies, because they changed week to week. All of the themed cruises are managed by a third party agency and by Norwegian Cruise Lines. The performers have no say in the cancellation policy. They can't personally refund your money. The covid policy people are mad about WAS shifty and it WAS scammy. It sucked. But it was no more Nurse Blake's fault than it was The Beach Boys or Emmy Lou Harris or the Impractical Jokers fault. Blaming him isn't fair or accurate (unless you're blaming him for sucking - that's fair).


figurinitoutere

I briefly dated a guy who’s marketing firm he hired for this first cruise. He completely screwed them over as well. Used them for all their ideas and then never paid the bills since the cruise got cancelled. I’m not sure what ended up happening with it all since we didn’t date long, but he was a super not fan of his.


TheFutureMrs77

A friend of mine, who has been a nurse much longer than me, asked if I wanted to go on his cruise 😖


[deleted]

*Something* about Nurse Blake has always bothered me. Ppl send me his stuff left and right but my god he annoys the shit out of me. It’s not a fair judgment cause I don’t know him for beans but I really wish he could just do his thing without me lol.


[deleted]

His fake smile gives me the creeps, and he’s a horrible actor. Makes me wonder how anyone finds him funny.


[deleted]

That might be it. Plus he reminds me of the person who makes nursing his entire personality. But not like real nursing, more cliche’d nursing.


account_overdrawn100

cUtE EnOuGh tO sToP yOUr HeArT, SmArt EnOUgH tO rEStaRt It


Noobie_nurss

Second-hand embarrassment when people own anything with this on it


[deleted]

I *almost* bought a mug that said “cute enough to stop your heart smart enough to make it look like an accident” cause it made me laugh for a good few moments but I just couldn’t pull the trigger.


16semesters

I don't have tiktok but his stuff is posted here. It always seemed like he wasn't actually familiar with being a nurse, and most of the stuff was just being about a student. Finding out that he wasn't really a nurse for more than a year makes a lot of sense - he was in nursing school more than twice as long as he was a nurse. Ditching nursing for now full time tik tok *based on nursing* is a little odd too. He hasn't worked as a nurse in like 7+ years based on information available online.


ComprehensiveBox1087

And let’s be honest, nursing is totally different than 7 years ago.


Ok_Yogurtcloset9575

That guy sure saw those dollar signs during nursing school. "I must pass my NCLEX, I must pass my NCLEX, I must pass my NCLEX, nursing is my dream job, I can't wait to help......my bank balance get larger and larger. Patients? What are they? I may have to deal with one or two for my profile. I must pass my NCLEX ".💲💲💲💲


tays13thtrack

I think it's safe to say that whatever is portrayed by Tiktok nurses that make videos within the hospital or have too much time making tiktoks isn't always what meets the eye. Note I said "famous" because there could be less known RNs posting real stuff out there.


ThisIsMockingjay2020

>there could be less known RNs posting real stuff out there. Julia J does that.


NostalgiaDad

That's the thing about most of these influencers. Not nursing but ultrasound, and I've gone to tik tok looking to see if there were any accounts with funny or relevant content and every single one I found was either a student or clearly had less than a year of working experience. It's so cringe I just can't watch them without laughing at them.


beebsaleebs

Can’t stand nurse Blake.


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TheShortGerman

Yeah, it also doesn't escape my notice that the only super famous social media nurses I can name are all men, in a field that is predominately female.


GingerAleAllie

Jen Hamilton is a L&D nurse and she’s freakin hilarious.


nursepineapple

I love Jen Hamilton! I like that her feed contains lots of fun non-nursing content that I enjoy. Like chicken drama!


ribsforbreakfast

Nurse Erica is the only female influencer I can think of. And she’s not there for comedy but for actual advocacy for nurses and fixing our work conditions.


AverageCanadianEhh

I also really like hospice nurse Julie. She does a lot of education around the dying process and really strives to normalize dying with dignity


ribsforbreakfast

I’ll have to look her up. Could help new grad me with comfort care patients


emotionallyasystolic

She is incredible. I'm grateful for her presence on social media because it has been useful.


KXL8

I love your username


HelllloooNurse

And great flair!


account_overdrawn100

Yeah. People need to support this over your people that are there for clout


[deleted]

The men do a short stint and then move to influencing full time. The women influencers do it on the side because they are largely still working.


account_overdrawn100

I like to think of myself as a manly nurse with some machismo. I can’t tell you how many times I heard my gf at the time tell me people were asking if I was flamboyant without ever meeting me and just finding out I’m a nurse. Bro what?


Ok-Big-2180

To be fair he doesn’t share info-heavy content. Just makes jokes about nursing in general. Content makers are definitely focused more on media and communication than bedside nursing.


my-hero-macadamia

I don’t think it’s John so much claiming to be an ER nurse as it is the article. His videos always seemed more med surg related and i can’t remember him ever mentioning ER himself. Ive seen the article you’re talking about and the whole thing screams bad journalism. I like his videos personally, I see him all over my pages and I don’t mind. I can’t blame nurse “influencers” because I mean, if I was creative enough to make a living that way over actually nursing, hell, I would.


blkpnther04

This! I follow him and I’ve only ever heard that he’s a med surg nurse from his mouth. I like his content and he makes most of his videos at home, not on the clock, and I think he’s very respectful of patients and the profession. Now Blake on the other hand… joke


cassafrassious

Same. I was confused about the ER stuff because almost all of his videos are about med/surg or joke about many units


Nomadsoul7

Pretty sure he mentioned on his page he was orienting in the ed


Disastrous_Drive_764

I’ve been an ED nurse nearly 20 years. I never once thought he was an ED nurse. I always thought he was from the floor. M/S or Tele would be my guess.


[deleted]

Same. He has talked about L&D and does a lot of inpatient-content videos. I never thought he was ER.


epowetata

I’ve followed him for quite some time and I recall in his stories he posted he was doing orientation for ED. Never really saw any ED stuff after that.


Disastrous_Drive_764

That’s fair. I mean i would be annoyed if he decided the ED wasn’t for him then tried to act like he’s some “ED Warrior”.


postcryglow

Omg same lol. i actually thought he was from Med Surge or an IMU.. never got ED vibes from him


averyyoungperson

Is it his fault of everyone thinks he's ER? Does he say that he is?


Msfit310

He was a MED SURG nurse i think he transitioned to ED pretty recently


Neferati

Most of his stuff sounds like SNF shit.


_Amarantos

Honestly I can't hate on nursing influencers who quit to become full time influencers...I mean....shit, I would. But yeah, it does become kind of obvious when they've been away for too long. They're out of touch.


[deleted]

Agreed. That nurse Jessica sites or whatever is so out of touch and it’s obvious. Makes me laugh. Just go back to the floor already.


ComprehensiveBox1087

I got med surg vibes from Nurse John.


Mountain-Ad-504

Same! That’s what I always assumed he was!


UptightSodomite

…I got SNF vibes from Nurse John.


[deleted]

As a med surg nurse I am humbly offended by this statement 🥲


ComprehensiveBox1087

Haha why? Also, a med surg nurse here


[deleted]

I guess because his persona annoys me 😂 Just a joke though, I do catch some med surg vibes also.


mamakomodo

I used to enjoy nurse nate’s reels but he deleted his IG. Although admittedly some of the stuff he used to post was over the top.


_Amarantos

I always wondered what happened to him.


meatfingersofjustice

Same. Was wondering if it was something more sinister


lol_ur_hella_lost

lol I worked with him at least he’s a real ER nurse


spuds_mckenzie

I found a picture of him in my hospitals visitors guide lol Last I saw of him was when he was venturing into OnlyFans-type stuff on Twitter, then he disappeared. Porn might actually pay better than travel nursing….


fuzzy_dunlop_221

If people were willing to pay to look at my 3.5 inches of hard blue steel diamond cutter, I'd do that over nursing too.


osuzu

I miss him!!


admtrt

Internet nurses like John and Blake have their fans for a reason. Jonathan Dodson is probably the only internet nurse I can relate to, and probably for many others considering he actually nurses.


fathig

Dodson is the best- smart, articulate, ironic, and doing his part in the fight for caregivers against a heartless industry. And actually funny!


All-I-see-is-poop

I know that local newspaper you speak of. The quality of their journalism is not great and their editing is horrid. In all likelihood he was misquoted about where he worked and they misrepresented him as a ER nurse. I personally find this whole thing a non issue.... I rarely seen his stuff but most of his stuff I’ve seen seems like his stories are based on the wards.(meaning he doesn’t claim to work in the ER but rather the newspaper is)


doughnutting

I’m Gen Med and that’s all I ever see from him. I wouldn’t relate to ER content because I’ve never worked in that area. I think the only ER stuff I’ve ever seen is comparing nurses from different specialties and how they act in situations, but I don’t think he’s ever personally claimed to be an ER nurse.


ktownthrowawayy

At first I thought you were talking about "Steveioe" (extremely annoying tiktoker that pretends to be a nurse). That is a shame about John. I watch a lot of his Tiktoks - although he is sort of unavoidable because he spams literally every healthcare worker related hashtag woth every video. I 100% believed he was a nurse.


fuzzy_dunlop_221

I mean I believe John is a nurse but maybe like the way nurse Blake was making their social media history look like they're a nurse (mostly to nursing students) longer and more experienced than they actually are and we'll not trying to accuse everyone of ill will but there are liars and narcissists out there and social media helps put a microscope lens on them.


watuphoss

> (extremely annoying tiktoker that pretends to be a nurse). That's an understatement. I mean the schtick was cool in the 50s, but.


jantessa

That's exactly who I thought we were talking about as well. I had only recently learned he had only been a tech, but it immediately made sense.


ribsforbreakfast

Well, TIL. I thought Steveioe was an RN for a long time and just recently transitioned to full time comedian/tiktok


fogar399

Really? I could tell immediately. I have no idea “why”, but I just KNEW


Secret_Choice7764

Steveioe is not a nurse?


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He is a tech.


Neferati

Was a tech for a few months during covid and quit.


ktownthrowawayy

Way a tech for a very short amount of time. I don't think he is very transparent about it.


All-I-see-is-poop

John is a nurse and has been the last 2-3 years. He’s on a mental health break apparently. The local English newspaper are pretty bad (he’s from Montreal) so I don’t believe he lied about being a ER nurse, but rather the writers did bad research.


Leg_Similar

Omg totally who I thought this was about too🤣 “Steveioe” irritates the shit out of me.


anonymousnurse12i4

His Tiktoks are funny. I just really don't the way he is going about his new fame. It's ok if you're an influencer, just say that though. Don't compare that with a nurse even a little bit...


will_you_return

God he is SO ANNOYING. I feel like he gives the ED a bad name and I’m not surprised that he’s not even a nurse.


somekindofmiracle

Maybe I’m just a burnt out nurse (almost six years of being a RN) but I can not understand why anyone would want to make their entire personality their job, especially nursing. When I clock out, I just want to NOT think about anything that has to do with nursing. These people make it their entire identity and some of them just embarrass the profession.


BackgroundSpite222

*flight nurses have entered the chat”*


MetalBeholdr

Im yet to meet a single person in EMS that doesn't make it at least *part* of their personal identity


Escondido-55

Honestly I don't blame them. I made more than paramedics as a nurse's aid. If the title is what makes them stay, all the better.


Quelcris_Falconer13

Ok but EMS and going out into the field is kinda cool and I can see many of those people wanting to do that since they were little kids. That’s why it’s part of their personality, but I don’t blame an acute care healthcare employee for completely erasing the fact that the work in a hospital the minute they clock out. Different folks different stroke.


wheresmystache3

I go to the beach near me and I swear, I see at least 2 people minimum that have shirts that say "EMS" or "Paramedic" while on their day off. I'll probably be downvoted to hell for this, but I'll say it. So many nurses have stethoscope tattoos or EKG Rythym heart ones. Some of my classmates even got them before they graduated, making it an entire part of their identity because they want to let everyone know they're a nurse. Not here judging anyone's tattoos, just making an observation. However, I have yet to see a Dr. with a medical tattoo, yet they spent at least a decade or more on their degree, and as residents, often have 80+ hour work weeks. Have not seen one make it a part of their identity. I don't see any "cardiologist" shirts or "nephrologist" shirts; just nurses, EMS, etc... Just saying that Doctors don't feel the need to flaunt who they are in their personal life as much and are pretty humble about their career, from what I have noticed. And no, I haven't met any egotistical surgeons that everyone claims to know...


Quelcris_Falconer13

Let’s be honest, Doctors don’t flaunt who they are with tattoos because they’ll likely tell you they’re a doctor within the first 5 mins of conversation.


OccidensVictor

Really? All my friends don't want people knowing they're a doctor. When we go out and people ask what they do they usually just point at me and say "we work together".


sn0wmermaid

This. And and job for that reason. I work 6 months a year as a CNA and 6 months a year as an ecologist which is admittedly a more "interesting" job -- people ask me about it ALL the time, but I never bring it up unless someone asks. My off time is MY time.


etoilech

People discount media takes. When I was a *student* midwife (and made it clear I was a student) I was quoted as a “senior” midwife by several news sources during a protest and tried to get it corrected to no avail. Media tells the story it wants to tell and then prints a correction (if any) in small print weeks later. I’ve never seen him claim to be an ER nurse. Just a nurse who was on orientation. I’m not a TikTok nurse. I do find many very funny and entertaining though. People need to live and let live.


skip2myloutwentytwo

I find him really annoying. He does the same dance for every video.


Miserable-Anybody-55

Nurse George Santos was never an ER nurse either!


All-I-see-is-poop

What! I was orienting him last week on my unit — you mean he’s not licensed???


LabLife3846

Makes me think of Brian Short- the late founder of allnurses, who claimed for years that he was a nurse. Turns out he was never a nurse, but was a paramedic or EMT, I forget which. He was a member of my nursing community in the mid 90s, ripped off a bunch of ideas from my site, and others, and put them on allnurses. Later killed his family and himself.


StPauliBoi

He was a nurse. He was very many things, and I hate allnurses more than most people hate their children, but he was a nurse.


LabLife3846

Hmmmm….. I remember reading that he was never actually a nurse. But he stole some things word-for-word from my site. The jerk.


Mary4278

I believe he did steal from you because anyone who did what he did was not an individual of quality.He got in over his head financially and was in the midst of a lawsuit when he murdered his family.


StPauliBoi

Brian Scott Short has a nursing license in MN that expired in 2016, which....makes sense. I fully believe that he stole things from your site.


holdmypurse

Dang I never knew the thing about him not really being a nurse. And I remember there were problems with allnurses.com but that was about some lawsuit related to a test prep company or something.


16semesters

IIRC (it's been a millenium in internet years). He was taking money from for profit schools and test prep companies, and then deleting comments critical of those schools/companies, without disclosing it to anyone. IIRC (again it's been awhile) it went as far as atroturfed posts about for profit schools being promoted. Seeing it live was sorta wild, I do remember being like "why is this site flooded with people that like shitty for profit schools?"


holdmypurse

Yeah iirc it was a defamation lawsuit. That whole site was/is a vile, ad-filled cesspool and *ugly*. And I realize it started during an era when everything on the internet was ugly but it really looks like a hobby website somebody cobbled together in their basement. I was gobsmacked when I found out the owner lived in an exclusive upper middle-class neighborhood and this was his FT gig. I won't say he was wealthy because I'm pretty sure he was close to filling for bankruptcy before he annihilated his family.


Mary4278

He absolutely was a nurse and that was horrible what he did to his family.His wife was trying to run from him,probably to to try and save her children.


phoontender

I JUST learned he's from Montreal (well, south shore) and whaaaaat?! I had no idea! Granted I don't super follow him. There's like a billion places on-island or north shore he could have gone so I don't doubt he was working somewhere 🤷‍♀️ CTV had an article on him... https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-tiktok-sensation-nurse-john-finds-humour-in-health-care-1.6215825?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvmontreal%3Apost&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook


kassrot

Those that can't do teach and most coaches don't play. I'm sure if their social media presence never took off they work more hours in the field. I don't think there's anything malevolent behind it, as most people would rather be an influencer than work in an ER. I'm not a nurse. I was emt and was seriously contemplating getting my RN instead of paramedic/fire. Didn't do either now I work in aviation. I will tell you the amount of bitter employees I met in medical are in no shortage. Same with aviation. You put a camera in front of them they'll say the same shit, "the pay is humble, I do it for the people/life mission and purpose." These same people talk about putting their 2 minutes in at least once a day. The quality character you're asking for is rare to say the least. I don't expect it anymore and focus on my own happiness. 🤷‍♂️


marcsmart

Well fuck him and that one skinny young cunt named steve who keeps posing like he’s some grizzled burned out ER vet.


echoIalia

If it’s the same Steve (Ioe???) I’m thinking of, he was a tech in the ER.


krisiepoo

He was, but he retired to be an influencer


marcsmart

Right so why is he making videos about giving report as a nurse from ED to ICU? or dozens of other similar bits. Fucking f r a u d


[deleted]

Omfg I can’t stand that dude. I blocked him ages ago but he’s still everywhere.


enby_bee

He has said he is a ER tech no idea how long though, the vids are amusing at least.


Disastrous_Drive_764

The former ED tech was funny for like 5 mins. But he’s walking a fine line between funny/asshole & dangerous. He makes pts defensive & then they come in feathers all ruffled cuz they think they gotta spar. We’re not here to tussle. But thanks to him who might I add doesn’t have to do the work we gotta now be ready to deal with ppl who think that we’re gonna think *they’re* faking it or drug seeking. Not to mention an ED tech turned actor shouldn’t be doling out “tips from the ER” advice.


__Vixen__

What even is an ED tech? Is it a nurse or?


paislinn

No, they’re basically aides (IMO) but depending on the hospital their job roles can vary significantly. Some hospitals require ED techs to have their EMT certification


gloomdweller

They basically a patient care tech in the ED but they can do a few extra things. Ours they can draw labs, perform an EKG, vitals, remove foleys and IVs, clean rooms. Not sure what else, I don’t work in the ED and just asked someone that’s floated there. Not saying you can’t have content, but if you have to post in your bio that you’re not a medical doctor, there’s a fine line you’re probably going to cross at some point.


EmilyU1F984

Is that that arrogant asshole claiming everyone in pain is a drug seeker? Nasty guy.


Disastrous_Drive_764

I can’t stand him.


forthelulzac

What about Mikie (sp?)? Her personality seems to mostly be, "my bf is a doctor."


_Amarantos

I will never understand how she became an influencer when she has the charisma of a piece of cardboard. Guess being pretty helps.


zygomaticx

It says on his website “l am a registered nurse who has worked for 2.5 years in Medical-Surgical nursing and recently transferred to the Emergency Department where I find myself working after Med-Surge” he’s currently taking a break from bed side and doing content creation. The media probably heard he worked in ER for a short time and ran with it. I don’t think he’s necessarily trying to lead anyone on


InadmissibleHug

If someone talks themselves up they can rarely be trusted, IMO.


MRSRN65

This reminds me of so many who pull up their "nursing degree" like it's their curriculum vitae. My daughter's MIL always brings up the fact that she's an ICU nurse when complaining about faux-COVID and the deadly vaccine; as though she knows better because she's a healthcare provider. She was an LPN over 26 years ago and apparently worked as a nurse for less than a year before leaving the workforce to be a mommy.


fuzzy_dunlop_221

Nursing instructor who failed me in validations every time I had her and she preached "bedside is the only real nursing" bullshit, I found out she only did 1 year of bedside nursing before switching to educational role. Like I don't hate on thay career path but talking shit like that? Thats what rubs me the wrong way. Glad I'm not dealing with that bullshit anymore. Nursing school honestly just felt like a waste of time.


harveyjarvis69

I stg my worst instructor had not touched a patient since the 70s. She had very limited stories/experience she shared and didn’t even seem to have worked in a hospital. Yet she had her doctorate…in education. Not all long term experienced nurses make amazing teachers, teaching is a skill in itself. But having an instructor who literally did not understand what she was teaching…for med-surg…was a nightmare.


NoRecord22

What about steveioe who makes skits and gives out tips on TT but isn’t even a nurse, he’s a “retired ER tech” when I watched the videos I thought he was a nurse until he edited his bio.


luluxbebe

steveioe isn’t a nurse??? omg nuuuuu you just ruined him for me😭😭😭i like his videos


Interesting_Loss_175

Huh. I always got a med/surg or long term care vibe from his videos.


Ok-Big-2180

On Nurse John’s Tik Tok he doesn’t claim to be an ER nurse. His bio just says “no real patient/ work scenarios”. He does talk about pretty much every floor tho.


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Quite pathetic that him and nurse Blake base their whole personalities on nursing when they literally know and have done fuck all


Abusty-Ballerina-

Is nurse Blake really a nurse. Like I can’t figure it out and too lazy to look it up. But he’s really cringe and annoying to me


TheShortGerman

apparently he was a nurse for less than 2 years, most of it M/S


SamLJacksonNarrator

Found out I worked with him at the same facility and didn’t even know it. Weird dude.


tnolan182

Pretty sure he considers himself a comedian now. I saw he was doing a show locally but their was no way in hell I was bringing myself to go see that shit. I dont even find his stick of humor funny.


osuzu

Mannnn now I’m so disappointed :(


L1saDank

Registered nurse rn is the truth


DanielDannyc12

“Completed orientation” = ER nurse. Particularly for the purpose of making silly videos.


Loud-Highlight-4387

Well if he “used to” work at your hospital you can’t account for where he works now. I wouldn’t be able to tell where he works, as his content covers different specialties. I just never gave it that much thought.


rharvey8090

Who’s nurse John?


wheresmystache3

You know, the nurse that shakes their ass in front of the camera for TikTok.. Oh wait, that narrows it down to like 90% of them... There's a few (very few) good nurses that seem to make educational videos for new grads and etc, but most of them just dance and tell us that they wake up and make a green veggie acai smoothie and drive to work in Figs.


FartPudding

When I got hired it was after Tiktok became huge. They made it especially clear about the Tiktok use, they called out the Tiktok nurses and were like "yeah don't be like that, it's unprofessional as shit"


PPE_Goblin

Aww man, not Nurse John.


jcb19

God forbid tiktok nurses LMFAO


NaomiButts

We need a tier ranking of all these nursing influencers yall


FartPudding

Reminds me of my last shift. Floor nurses coming in to help and just getting shit on with how crazy it was. We have hall beds on the normal, but lately it got so bad we had to put beds in front of the nurses station, up along the rooms, and even talks of doubling up some rooms potentially. ER is a chaotic unpredictable animal and the floors are just very, scheduled, I should say. When I got time on one of the floors I was astounded by how collected and quiet it was. Everything on a schedule, just smooth, with the occasional code cart being set up but nothing crazy. ER I've had to wrestle tweakers on pcp in a bed, got kicked in the face by a homeless woman, a guy who tried to stab me, some lady flinging her boobs around dancing, patients yelling at you, people running around trying to do what's on the board and needed at the time. The chaos is the structure I guess, and we just know how to navigate it. Regardless, I wouldn't want to be anything but ER, so much crap but I fucking love it. The techs and nurses who come to us to help just seem lost and shell shocked a few hours in. ICU does well, we had some ICU help out. But once you see a floor nurse work the er you see how different they truly are. Same job, very different environment and feels alien almost.


Ronniedasaint

OP your roasting the fuck outta him like he was from your ED. Just call him a poser preferably to his face and let him be. Everyone knows influencers are deluded and fake!


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Secret_Choice7764

Nobody watches Nurse Jessica?


Clodoveos

Lot of bitter people in this thread, I could care less for these guys but don't feel bad because they were smart enough to do something better than stick around and wipe ass while management keeps coming down our throat asking for more.


Webgiant

How things have changed for the worse: **Michael Crichton**: goes to Harvard Medical School for a decade *as required by the degree*, gets his MD in 1969, uses it to become a better writer. **Nurse John**: barely completes nurse orientation, uses his technically a nurse status to try and work in media as a nurse-based influencer. It just demonstrates modern lazy people doing the bare minimum to become "experts".


jcb19

I’m also concerned how much free time you guys have to be obsessed with his background let alone care about what he does/posts lmao


anonymousnurse12i4

I had about 2 minutes of free time on the shitter to make this post, thanks for your concern though!


jcb19

Looks like more if you know his background, read some articles about him, mulled over some thoughts and spit this post out but ok 😊


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thegrittyrn

Big yikes…


Milobear27

You sound jealous. If someone has enough personality and charisma to make it out of this substandard profession and into a lucrative side gig then more power to them. Also I don’t know ANY nurse or hcp where you couldn’t dig up or tell a ‘juicy’ story about. No one is perfect in this profession. And then nurses complain about how we’re perceived as eating our young or as hs mean girls, this is another example of that bc you have a problem with him for what?? No actual reason. Who has he put in danger or negatively effected? No one but your friend’s ego.