Newsweek July 18, 2022
Shafin Tejani

Nurses are finding creative ways to blend their calling with entrepreneurship.

Anyone with family and friends who work in healthcare knows it: Nurses are not alright.

I’ve heard it from my loved ones. Nurses have been overworked and understaffed for years. Then the pandemic came and exacerbated all those issues, adding burnout and safety risks to their list of woes. Now, two in five nurses say they’re planning on leaving healthcare.

Yet in the face of these challenging conditions, some are forging a different path forward, with the help of smartphone technology. A growing cohort of nurses and healthcare professionals are turning to on-demand apps that put them in charge of their own workload, their own schedule, and...

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