KevinMD January 22, 2026
A nursing student recently told me she had decided not to apply for bedside roles after graduation. Not because of her clinical rotations. Not because of faculty advice. Because of what she sees every night on TikTok. Her feed is filled with short videos describing unsafe staffing, emotional exhaustion, hostile workplaces, and nurses counting down the days until they can leave the profession. She knows these posts reflect real experiences. What she doesn’t know is how representative they are, or how rarely alternative narratives appear in the same digital space.
For her, and for many in Generation Z, social media has become the primary source of career information about nursing. Not educators. Not clinical exposure. Algorithms. As a researcher focused...
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