Nurse Erica-no stranger to controversy-is getting MAJOR backlash for a Tik Tok post belittling allied health professionals….and health profession creators of multiple specialties felt the need to speak up and speak out.
Nurse Erica typically creates content related to unionizing and staffing ratios; thus, this post from her was a bit odd to say the least.
The post centered around the controversy depicts Nurse Erica with a video reply to a comment that read, “Lab’s job? I don’t see you guys working in the lab.” Nurse Erica states ….” we shouldn’t have to, but we can. We can do RT’s job for the most part. We can do housekeeping’s job. We can do dietary’s job. We can do the phlebotomy. We can do all those things; central supply, everything they make us do. But you cannot do our job.” She goes on to opine that management is taking advantage of nurses because they know we can do these things. The insult comes with her final statement of “you can’t do our job, but we can do your job.”
Almost immediately, people responded with outrage on the platform via comments and stitches.
Nurse Erica quickly removed the post but offered no explanation or clarification as to the intent of it. People on the platform were still pissed and took their rage out on the creator for her disparaging remarks.
One user wrote, “does she realize how much we have to know as an RT oh that boils my blood 1”
Another said, “I’m in ICU. We do so much POC lab work. She made her point poorly (as far as I can tell, with no context) but I get what she means.”
The content spoiled over to the patient population with one writing, “as a medically fragile patient whose had multiple spine surgeries, my last one was 12 hours. Her mentality is frightening”
The outrage even made its way over to Twitter where one user wrote, “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Nurse Erica is an embarrassment.” Another Twitter user called Erica a bully tweeting “she bullied me over a union issue at my hospital. “
Up through this point, Erica has stayed mum, offering no comments but people are not letting her forget it.