Nurse Charles
Charles T. Folsom Jr., RN. Atlanta ER nurse, business owner, and builder of Breathe Clear. For podcasts, press, and event hosts.
Charles T. Folsom Jr., RN, is an Atlanta ER nurse, entrepreneur and the creator of Breathe Clear, a youth overdose and vaping prevention program built from what he sees on shift. He runs his own company and still works the ER by choice. Online, he is Nurse Charles: the nurse who tells young people the truth before they need him.
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Why he is worth the room
ER nurse, still on the floor
Not a former nurse and not a commentator. He treats the overdoses and vape injuries he talks about.
Business owner
Founder of IAMNURSE LLC and Nurse Charles Media. Building a company did not take him out of the ER. He chose to stay.
Builder of Breathe Clear
A nurse-led youth overdose and vaping prevention program for schools, with a live ER simulation and a Spanish edition.
What he can speak on
Truth, not fear: talking to teens about vaping and drugs
How a nurse talks to a patient, plainly and without shame, applied to how we talk to young people.
Every kid can save a life
Naloxone, CPR, and calling for help. Why overdose response belongs in prevention.
What the ER sees that parents do not
Vaping, fentanyl-contaminated products, and the warning signs adults miss.
Why nurses belong in the classroom
The most trusted profession in the room before the emergency, not only after it.
Social media and health misinformation
What a working clinician does with a platform, and what he refuses to do with it.
Navigating the ER
How to advocate for yourself or someone you love in a hospital emergency.
Past and current work
- Emergency nurse. Active RN working emergency medicine in Atlanta.
- Breathe Clear. Nurse-led overdose and vaping prevention for schools. See the program.
- Nurse Charles Media and IAMNURSE LLC. Health education content for young people, parents, and educators.
- Free guides. An ER Nurse's Guide to Quitting Vaping and the ER Survival Guide.
- Speaking. Keynotes and school presentations. Speaker page.
- Coming soon. Before the ER, a weekly interview show.
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