Quebec nursing students go viral on TikTok – Montreal | 24CA News

A gaggle of nursing college students from Champlain College in St. Lambert, Que., south of Montreal has gone viral.

What began as a easy message for a category venture two days in the past has exploded in recognition, due to social media.

“I’m still surprised myself,” laughed third-year nursing pupil Elizabeth Marchand. “I wasn’t sure it was going to happen.”

On Wednesday, the third-year class arrange kiosks on the college as a part of classwork to advertise good well being practices.

One group of six picked an anti-vaping marketing campaign as their message.

“What vape really does to the body, what kinds of ingredients are in the vape, and that overall it’s not healthy,” defined pupil Joanne Ouo.

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The plan, along with giving data, was to bribe vapers with donuts in alternate for his or her vape pens.

It shocked them that it even labored.

“Who would give out a vape that cost $30 for a $2 donut?” Ouo laughed.

The larger shock, although, got here later.

Program coordinator Paul Brisson recorded the campaigns and shared the movies on TikTok Wednesday afternoon.

“I said to the college it would be nice if we can get 25,000 views,” the previous emergency room nurse informed Global News.

But the web response exceeded his expectations. By meal time that day it had 15,000 views. By Friday afternoon, in accordance with the school, the view tally had reached one million.

Brisson and the scholars are nonetheless attempting to determine why.

“I think the one hashtag that made it all was “#vapingforlife,” he reasoned. “Basically this is a hashtag to promote vaping, but we went against it.”

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Others suppose the thought of swapping a vape pen for a donut created the thrill.

“So I think people were arguing,” mentioned Ariane Grenier, one other of the scholars concerned. “Some people were saying, ‘oh it’s a good idea’ and some people are like, ‘I will not trade a vape for a donut.’”

Whatever the explanation, that video and the nursing program’s three-week-old TikTok web page are each surging in recognition. The account now has greater than 84,000 likes, an indication, Brisson believes, that the inhabitants does worth nurses.

He mentioned the success has even sparked conversations about the opportunity of rising the college’s 120-student programme.

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