About r/nursing
Community guide
r/nursing (#927, about 1.2 million) is a high-volume professional nursing/healthcare discussion room—explicitly not for patient medical advice or identifiable patient details.
What belongs
Nursing practice talk (about 94 posts/day, mostly text). Rules: no medical advice; nursing/healthcare relevance; no commercial/job-spam surveys; no PII or patient identifiers; no unsafe/illegal practice advocacy; no anti-science; no electioneering; no bigotry.
Versus general medical advice subs
Patient-advice rooms invite symptom questions. nursing is peers talking shop—and bans giving clinical advice to the public here.
Practical pointers
Strip patient identifiers; don’t ask strangers for diagnoses.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Oct 18, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,177 subscribers (+0.10%). It sits just behind r/KDRAMA (#926) and ahead of r/Romania (#928) in our ranking.
What sets r/nursing apart
r/nursing is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 89% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 82.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 94% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (01:00 UTC) sees about 4.4× as many posts as the quietest (09:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/nursing climbed from 1,141,298 to 1,148,184 subscribers (+6.9K, +0.60%). That is about 157 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/nursing talks about
Across 627 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “nurse”, “nurses”, “job”, “advice” and “grad”. Other frequent themes are hospital, icu, help, question, work and care. Recurring phrases include “night shift”, “grad nurse”, “critical care” and “job offer”. By format, 89% are text posts, 7% are images and 2% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Seeking Advice (192), Discussion (178), Question (96), Serious (45), Rant (44), Image (15).
Activity and best time to post
r/nursing gets about 94 new posts a day. The public archive holds 411,035 posts and 7,757,475 comments in total, about 18.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (117 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (67). Posting peaks around 01:00 UTC and is lowest around 09:00 UTC.
Rules of r/nursing
The moderators of r/nursing list 10 rules. In short:
- No medical advice
- Posts should be related to nursing or healthcare
- No commercial posts, including job postings or surveys
- No revealing personal information, including social media accounts
- No sharing of identifiable patient information
- No personal insults
- Do not advocate unsafe or illegal practice
- No anti-science rubbish
- No electioneering
- No racism, sexism, or other intolerable isms
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/nursing and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/nursing?
r/nursing has 1,148,184 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #927 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,886 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/nursing?
r/nursing was created on Oct 18, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Nov 16, 2009.
How active is r/nursing?
Very active: r/nursing gets about 94 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 411,035 posts and 7,757,475 comments. In a sample of 627 recent posts we counted 584 different authors.
When is r/nursing most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 01:00 UTC, with the fewest around 09:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/nursing about?
The community describes itself as: “Nursing for nurses and by nurses for the care of all.” Recent post titles often mention nurse, nurses, job, advice and grad. Most posts are text posts (89%).
Is r/nursing safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/nursing as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/nursing?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/nursing accepts both text and link posts, with images and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “No medical advice”; “Posts should be related to nursing or healthcare”; “No commercial posts, including job postings or surveys”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/nursing?
Communities with similar topics include r/houseplants (3M), r/30PlusSkinCare (2.5M), r/gardening (9M), r/fragrance (2.5M) and r/careerguidance (5.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/nursing.