Best Subreddits for Nurses (2026)

Nurses provide direct patient care across hospitals, clinics, and specialty settings.

4 communities

r/nursing ↗Very High activity

General nursing discussion across specialties, shifts, and career stages.

r/StudentNurse ↗High activity

Nursing school, NCLEX prep, and clinical rotation discussion.

r/ICU ↗Medium activity

Critical care nursing-specific clinical and career discussion.

r/NurseLife ↗Medium activity

Day-to-day venting, scheduling, and culture discussion among working nurses.

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r/nursing

Chronic understaffing pushes patient ratios past safe limits

Nurses describe regularly being assigned more patients than they can safely manage during a shift.

Severity

“Eight patients on a med-surg floor tonight. That's not nursing, that's triage.”

“Management keeps calling it 'temporary' but it's been temporary for two years.”

Mentioned in similar form across roughly 60 posts in example data.

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