ABSTRACT Professional discourses continue to view nursing through an aesthetic of seriousness that polices comportment, voice, and credibility, especially among migrant nurses. This discussion paper examines how campful comedy can unsettle these regimes while simultaneously performing care, focusing on the recurring TikTok persona “Tita Marites” by Filipino‐Canadian nurse‐creator @nurse.johnn. Drawing on camp theory and Narsolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Nursologies), we conduct a discursive, multimodal reading of public short‐form videos to trace how exaggerated performance functions as both critique and care in diasporic nursing contexts. We show how Tita Marites ' camp performance (i.e., bob wigs and colourful scrubs as costume, Taglish cadence, kinship address, food‐giving, and micro‐choreographed gestures) recasts governance, challenges physician primacy and textbookism, and builds solidarity through gastronomic hospitality and kinship. Audience reception further demonstrates how this Filipino‐coded persona resonates as a recognisable unit figure and a shared language of protection and care. We argue that campful comedy offers nursing philosophy a way to theorise counterperformance, visibility, and relational care under conditions of migrant struggles.
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