MedCity News February 13, 2023
The deficiency of nurse-specific billing data makes nurses literally and figuratively invisible in terms of political and financial decision-making capacity within the U.S. healthcare sector.
Although the three-day nursing strike in New York City this past January was undoubtedly the most publicized, it was just one of many planned in the U.S. during the same time frame. Nurses were also mobilizing to strike at hospital systems in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, all coordinated through the same labor union, National Nurses United. And U.S. nurses weren’t alone in their grievances, with British nurses also making their voices heard this past December in the largest nursing strike in the history of Britain’s National Health Service.
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