Becker's Healthcare January 14, 2025
Mariah Taylor

On Jan. 16, thousands of registered nurses will hold marches, protests and rallies to demand the hospital industry ensure safe staffing levels and artificial intelligence safeguards, a Jan. 14 National Nurses United news release said.

“Patient advocacy is at the core of what we do as nurses,” Nancy Hagans, RN, president of NNU, said in the release. “That’s why we’re demanding safe staffing and protections against untested technologies such as AI. We see the harm that these cost-cutting schemes cause our patients on a daily basis.”

In 2024, the union released guiding principles for AI implementation and shared its deep concerns that the current implementation of AI was “reckless.”

In a 2024 survey of over 2,300...

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