Warm, bubbly and a certified hoot, Georgie Carroll is exactly the kind of person you would just trust to fit your catheter and make you laugh while doing it. Following in the footsteps of Adam Kay’s This Is Going To Hurt (minus the trauma), Carroll’s stand-up centres around her 20 plus years of being a nurse in both the UK and Australian healthcare systems. With a sizable online following and a Britain’s Got Talent semi-final under her belt, she’s hardly a newbie on the scene despite this being her first time at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Her debut is a strong hour of entertaining anecdotes and astute analysis of a system in crisis where she always chooses to be funny over preachy. Carroll perfectly caters to her audience, ensuring jargon is kept to a minimum while still maintaining specificity that makes fellow nurses in the audience feel seen (there are many in this evening). Cutting jabs at physios, pharmacists and speech therapists are well observed without feeling cruel, and a raucous section on night-shift conversations has everyone in stitches. More personal territory is covered too as Carroll proves she is a talented joke writer who doesn’t just know about funny bones, she has them. 

Nurse Georgie Carroll: Sista Flo 2.0, Assembly George Square Studios, until 25 August, 8.10pm.