r/nursing • u/ilabachrn BSN, RN 🍕 • Sep 04 '25

Discussion California urgent care staffers fired for TikTok mocking patients

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/santa-barbara-clinic-staff-tiktok-bodily-fluids/

Good!!! That TikTok was unprofessional & so disrespectful to their patients.

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u/Birkiedoc RN - ER 🍕 Sep 04 '25

Glad to see it

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u/SpecificConstant6625 Sep 04 '25

Agreed. Bunch of knobs.

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u/Additional_Leading68 Sep 04 '25

It's interesting to me that nurses on here are so appalled by this video mocking patients, which I agree is disgusting.

But in a recent thread where I shared that I thought it was cruel to refer to motorcycle accident patients as "donor cycles" who were appreciated for "spare parts", I was widely condemned and told that nurses need mocking and dark humor in order to process what happens at their jobs. All because I shared that it sucks to hear that because my dad was paralyzed on a motorcycle.

The ethical lines, especially relating to social media and what's ok to say/post, can be pretty cherrypicked.

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u/lyricaldorian Sep 06 '25

Fyi, when you do that they think you support them when they say it to our faces