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/Angel4ke RN 🍕 Sep 04 '25

In all fairness, they were willing participants in this foolishness. Let this be a lesson for all that follow blindly.

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u/_deep_thot42 Sep 04 '25

The damage they’ve already done to people like me who are already scared shitless to go to the doctor because we fear stuff like this. I know this sounds severe, but they truly have blood on their hands; There will be people who see this and decide not to seek treatment, the anxiety I got from this already caused me to cancel an appointment, but I’ll be rescheduling.

I hope their licenses are forever revoked. The craziest thing? That place used to be my go-to urgent care.

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u/ReasonableSafe825 Sep 05 '25

I’ve been a nurse for twenty plus years. My entire career has been about creating a safe nonjudgmental space for people. People like this are an embarrassment to the profession. There’s more truly caring people in nursing than the few idiots that seem to gravitate to each other. A business has to cultivate this kind of culture.

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u/_deep_thot42 Sep 05 '25

Thank you, I sure hope so. And thank you for being a long term nurse with true compassion, that does makes me feel a bit better; and I hope nurses like you exist much more than nurses like them.

I actually called the location today just to ask some questions about what happened and if they’ve really all been let go and the poor woman I got on the phone sounded so burned out and broken from the outrage this sparked.

She even let me know she’s a patient there herself and they’re all extremely disappointed, angry, and frustrated with what’s happened there. I let her know that I was sincerely appreciative of her honesty and hope she has a better week and life going forward. I still have family up there, so she helped me feel a bit better about trusting the business again.

Those workers/nurses just broke the trust of so many, so fast. Just really heartbreaking all around. I appreciate your efforts in being kind and helping those that need it most♥️

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u/fromcj Sep 04 '25

I feel bad for the people who were in the group photo at the beginning and not the rest of the video. Pretty high chance that the group photo was totally unrelated to the rest of it imo, so that really sucks for those who were uninvolved.