Written by David Roberts
Reviewed by Lucas Walter
Updated
The top nurse influencers in 2026 are Nurse John, Jade, Nurse Stankk, Alex Kim, and Nurse Blake. This list ranks 28 nurse influencers by median views across their recent videos, not by follower count. Each one was found by searching across hundreds of thousands of top-performing posts in the nursing niche.
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All 28 are listed in rank order. Select a row to jump to the write-up.
| Rank | Creator | Followers | Median views | Engagement | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nurse John @nurse.johnn | 5.4M | 990K | 5.4% | Charge-nurse and coworker characters |
| 2 | Jade @jade.lillies | 20.3K | 247K | 9.5% | Operating-room shift clips |
| 3 | Nurse Stankk @nursestankk | 337K | 212K | 5.9% | ER sketches, one joke each |
| 4 | Alex Kim @thatalexrn | 903K | 205K | 5.3% | Pediatric and neonatal storytimes |
| 5 | Nurse Blake @nurse.blake | 1.3M | 170K | 2.7% | Nurse comedy, tours, and a conference cruise |
| 6 | Nurse Sarah @registerednursern_com | 1M | 167K | 0.9% | NCLEX and clinical skills |
| 7 | NurseAustin @nurse_austin_ | 141K | 145K | 4.5% | Pay, schedules, and debates for nurses |
| 8 | Lindsey Shelton @scrubhacks | 715K | 133K | 3.2% | ICU comedy and clinical warnings |
| 9 | madisonlinsullivan @madisonlinsullivan | 154K | 132K | 11.7% | Handoff report skits |
| 10 | Britni @justbritni | 460K | 92.4K | 19.6% | Birth education from the delivery room |
| 11 | Kelvin Sean @nurse.kelvin | 106K | 78K | 2.7% | Silent hospital jokes set to music |
| 12 | Nurse Jo @themedicinecabinetrn | 160K | 67K | 4.8% | Pregnancy week by week |
| 13 | Becca @that.labor.nurse | 125K | 62.1K | 14.5% | Delivery-room storytimes in parts |
| 14 | Labor_Junkie_RN @labor_junkie_rn | 984K | 57.4K | 6% | High-risk labor explainers |
| 15 | Nurse Brenden @nursebrenden1 | 293K | 57.3K | 13.3% | POV sketches about hospital politics |
| 16 | Kristine Tuttle @nurseinthemakingkristine | 1.8M | 53.1K | 5.8% | Medication quizzes and NCLEX prep |
| 17 | Caitlin @caitarmstrongrn_ | 255K | 48.4K | 9.3% | ER routines and when to go to the ER |
| 18 | Nurse Nate @thedudenurse | 197K | 47.4K | 4.7% | ER jokes and nurse debates |
| 19 | Julie McFadden @hospicenursejulie | 603K | 41.5K | 4.1% | Hospice, dying, and dementia |
| 20 | King Odalo @odalooris | 90.5K | 38.8K | 5.3% | New-grad and family-pressure skits |
| 21 | themursedad @themursedad | 19.5K | 36.7K | 4.3% | NICU POV skits |
| 22 | Mark Radana @hospitalnonsense | 180K | 32.9K | 1.5% | One-man hospital sketches |
| 23 | Nurse Kesh @kesheencurtis | 159K | 27.7K | 14.3% | Pediatric shift vlogs |
| 24 | Ciara Melle @CiaraMelle | 140K | 27.4K | 4.8% | Scrub styling and night-shift routines |
| 25 | Tina Bitangcol @mama_nurse_tina | 349K | 27.2K | 2.5% | Birth prep with sketch comedy |
| 26 | Aaron @lavnurse0 | 19.1K | 26.8K | 2.2% | Two-person shift skits |
| 27 | Penny Smith @hospicenursepenny | 578K | 23.4K | 3.1% | End-of-life teaching, retired hospice nurse |
| 28 | Logan @nurseloganrn | 24.8K | 21.4K | 2.6% | Dark ICU humor |
The best nursing influencers aren’t simply the accounts with the most followers. Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube all show videos to people based on how the video performs individually, not just based on who follows the creator. As a result, a small or midsized account can reach more people than one several times its size.
That’s why we rank nurse influencers by median views of their videos (the average number of people a typical video reaches). As of November 2026, the five most watched are Nurse John, Jade, Nurse Stankk, Alex Kim, and Nurse Blake.
Grouped by who the posts are for and what they do. The number beside each name is the creator’s overall rank.
The jokes nurses send each other. Scrubs, shoes, and staffing brands reach working nurses here.
Hospital character comedy: burnt-out coworkers, sick calls, and generations of nurses played in one take. Tour dates and restaurant stops from the road fill the gaps.
3 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in scrubs and skincare.
Two-shot ER sketches carried by a single caption line about shifts, charting, and triage. A comedy tour is the side business.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in scrubs.
Skits about night shift, drug guides, and work wives, with the joke on screen. Ticket promos for two comedy tours and a nursing conference at sea run alongside.
2 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in travel-nurse housing and scrubs.
ICU comedy beside a straight-faced clinical series on what can go wrong, from Foley mistakes to UTIs. Some run past two minutes.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in scrubs, skincare, and dog food.
“POV: getting report from” skits, one difficult coworker at a time, with short medication and precepting tips straight to camera. Comment requests set up many of the next ones.
5 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in online shopping, hair removal, and oral care.
First-person hospital jokes with no talking: IV bags, needle caps, night shift, all carried by a caption and a song. Short, and easy to watch with the sound off.
5 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in hydration, nursing education, and supplements.
Single-camera POV sketches about report, hospital politics, and a recurring nurse who cheated through nursing school. Every one of the last 30 is about the job.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in exam prep.
ER skits and lists of “loser behavior” made to send to a coworker, plus Pokémon and triage jokes. Brands tend to appear as thank-you captions, not ad labels.
5 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in drinks and snacks, scrub caps, and dry shampoo.
Nurse-humor skits with the creator as the punchline: shift starts, charting, and African parents as career counselors. Every one of the last 30 is about the job.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Daily one-man sketches playing the nurse, the CNA, the nursing student, and the patient. Captions usually close by asking the comments something.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
One acted hospital situation per Reel, played with a partner, with the punchline in the caption. Tagged for nursing students, LPNs, and CNAs as well as RNs.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
ICU and ER jokes about night shift, charting, and doctors, with a Halloween cosplay run in late October. About a Reel a day.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Birth education and delivery-room stories for expecting parents. A fit for baby and postpartum products.
Birth plans, epidurals, and C-section walk-throughs told to camera by a labor and delivery nurse, plus shift recaps. Faith and motivation posts fill the rest.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in household products.
A numbered pregnancy series and single-topic newborn explainers, one plain fact per video, in scrubs and a badge. Warning signs get the same calm treatment as week-by-week growth.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Serialized labor and delivery stories told from the car, each opened by a question to answer. Practical birth prep and an own-brand pregnancy journal sit alongside.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Epidurals, C-sections, and postpartum warning signs explained at work, off the clock, by a high-risk labor nurse. Stitches and reaction clips answer other videos.
2 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in postpartum care.
Labor and delivery education for expecting parents: birth positions, Pitocin, baby-bottle reviews. Sketches about childbirth keep it funny.
3 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in breastfeeding products, smoothies, and beauty.
Children’s units from the nurse’s side. Check how each one handles patients on camera.
Storytimes and skits from pediatric and neonatal units: odd baby names, forgotten pockets, on-call pay. A running series about two cats, one with asthma, is the second lane.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in scrubs, baby food, and cat food.
NICU humor about report, admissions, and parents. The smallest TikTok account here, reaching about twice its following on a typical post.
4 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in medical apparel and baby care.
Handheld days on a pediatric unit, with text captions and mental-health check-ins. A medical mission to Kenya, made with a scrubs brand, ran through October.
6 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in scrubs and hydration.
Shorts from a pediatric travel nurse on nights: “Scrubtober” costumes in regulation scrubs, post-shift routines, moves between contracts. A badge-accessory shop is the side business.
No sponsored videos found in the last 90 days.
Pay, schedules, and routines from the units with the longest days.
Short clips in OR scrubs set to music: end-of-shift exits, new-grad confidence, scrubs-to-street changes. Travel and fashion Reels sit between them.
3 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in footwear and home lighting.
Talking-head questions put to nurses, CNAs, and healthcare workers: pay by state and title, day against night, best schedule. Each one is built to start an argument in the comments.
6 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in hydration, scrubs, staffing, eyewear, and sleep products.
Get-ready videos before ER shifts that turn into stories, beside warning-sign explainers for parents. A working-mom thread and shopping roundups run through the feed.
3 sponsored posts in the last 90 days, in telehealth, cleaning appliances, and children’s supplements.
Two teach nursing students. Two teach families about dying.
One clinical tip per Reel: IV starts, veins, lab values. A long-running NCLEX brand behind it, with a far bigger YouTube channel and smaller views there.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
Medication quizzes, skills checks, and “who would you see first” scenarios for nursing students. Study guides from a site of the same name are the business.
No sponsored posts found in the last 90 days.
A licensed hospice nurse explains what dying looks like, usually in scrubs and to camera, and answers questions from comments. A podcast on death and a best-selling book are the larger project.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in personal-data removal.
A retired hospice nurse on deathbed signs, DNRs, and what happens to a body after death, straight to camera. Personal posts on divorce and sobriety come between them.
1 sponsored post in the last 90 days, in a nonprofit petition.
We analyzed the 806 posts these 28 creators published on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in the last 30 days. Of those, 143 beat their creator’s usual views by 3× or more.
Here is how this month’s breakouts open, read from what each video says in its first seconds, or from its caption when nobody speaks.
“The only thing worse than recapping a needle is explaining why you did it 🫣”
Of the breakouts, 37 have nobody speaking. A song plays, a nurse acts out one small moment, and the caption delivers the joke.
Kelvin Sean 5.4M views · 69.5× their usualAll nine of Kelvin Sean’s breakouts work this way, and so do the usual posts on that account. The difference is the subject: a needle cap or a trash bag that every nurse has handled. If your product shows up in a video like this, it has to make sense without a voiceover.
“So what is the one phrase that a patient can say to me that will make me stop everything that I am doing?”
A question comes first, and the viewer stays to hear the answer. Becca opens nearly every storytime this way, usual posts included, so the opening alone did not make these break out. The two largest stories are the ones a nurse would tell in the break room: a patient who says she needs to poop, and what Becca walked in on after being floated to postpartum.
Becca 1.7M views · 27.8× their usualOther creators ask the viewer directly. “Do y’all know which healthcare professional gets the least amount of love?” and “What is the best nursing schedule?” each hand nurses something to argue about in the comments.
“The difference in these two nursing careers is only one letter and almost $200,000 per year.”
Only a few breakouts open by setting two things side by side, and they come from different creators. They are worth a look because the gap is the whole pitch, and the rest of the video only has to explain it.
NurseAustin 756K views · 5.2× their usualPay is the clearest case: three of NurseAustin’s breakouts are about pay or schedules. A brand with a plain price or pay difference has a ready opening line.
Nurse Nate: “I don’t care what anyone says. I love being a girly pop as a nurse” reached 3.5M views, 74.4× their usual.
Aaron: “Finally programs are starting to ease up 😂 🦋 💪” reached 1.8M views, 69× their usual.
Mark Radana: “Hey, can I get some ice water? Oh, thank God you’re here” reached 1.5M views, 45.2× their usual.
This table shows what the nurse accounts on this list do at each size on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Use it to judge whether a creator’s numbers are strong for their tier.
| Tier | Followers | Median views | Engagement | Posts a week | Sponsored posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | 10K to 100K | 36.7K | 4.3% | 3 | 3% |
| Mid | 100K to 500K | 59.7K | 5.3% | 7.5 | 6% |
| Macro | Over 500K | 133K | 4.1% | 6.8 | 4% |
The figures are medians across these 28 accounts, from each account’s recent videos. “Sponsored posts” is the share of posts in the 90 days to Nov 2, 2026, that carry a paid-partnership or paid-promotion label or a stated sponsor, or are part of a brand campaign.
If you sell to nurses or recruit them, the first question is who the creator’s audience is, because the same scrubs on two accounts can reach a nurse in one case and a new parent in the other.
Comedy accounts are watched by people who get the joke, so they suit scrubs, shoes, staffing, and exam prep. Birth and hospice educators are found by people going through one or the other, so they suit baby care, postpartum, and family services.
The word “nurse” in a handle is not a credential. Some bios on this page state RN or BSN, and some only imply it. Ask for the state and the license number, and check it with that state’s board of nursing before a product claim goes out in the creator’s voice.
Patient stories get the views in this niche, and they can also get a nurse into trouble. The national nursing regulators’ guide warns that a nickname, room number, diagnosis, or condition can still identify a patient. Read a month of posts as a hospital’s compliance officer would.
Check it hardest with accounts filmed on a unit. Ask whether their employer knows, and what happens to your campaign if that changes.
Nurses often have their largest following on one platform and their largest views on another. Ask for the median on each one, and write the contract around the median, not the follower count.
A scrubs ad here can draw a fraction of what the same creator’s jokes do. Ask for views on the last three paid posts, and ask whether the creator would write the product into a sketch, since that is what their audience came for.
We identified and ranked these creators by searching hundreds of thousands of top-performing nursing posts across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with Klint.
We rank by median views across each creator’s recent videos, so one viral post can’t lift an account up the list. Creators from any country qualify if they post in English, say they are or were nurses, and post mainly about nursing life or knowledge.
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As of November 2026 the top five nurse influencers by median views are Nurse John, Jade, Nurse Stankk, Alex Kim, and Nurse Blake.
The three listed under TikTok with the highest medians are madisonlinsullivan, Britni, and Nurse Jo. Kristine Tuttle has the most TikTok followers of the creators listed under TikTok, with 1.8M.
17 of the 28 are listed under Instagram, 10 under TikTok, and 1 under YouTube, each on the platform where their median views are highest. Nurse John is the largest on Instagram, with 5.4M followers.
All three are nurses with large audiences, and all three get strong views. Fewer than half of their recent posts are about nursing, though: the posts have moved on to their books, their personal lives, and their travel. This list is for creators who post mainly about nursing.
Start with the nurses your customers already tag, then look through hashtags such as #nurselife and #nursesoftiktok and check who posts about your product’s unit or specialty. Klint can run the same search in one line, for example “ICU nurses on Instagram under 200K followers who have promoted scrubs.”
It depends on the median views, the platform, and how much the product has to be explained. Most deals here are a fee per post or a longer ambassador role, and scrubs brands also pay commission through a link in the bio. A claim about health usually takes more review, which adds to the cost.
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