STAT+: Nurses seek a seat at the table as they fight expanding clinical AI
Nurses, who make up the largest part of the health care workforce, say clinical artificial intelligence poses a threat to their jobs, and patients.
Nurses, the largest segment of the healthcare workforce, are increasingly vocal about the risks posed by clinical artificial intelligence (AI) to their jobs and patient care as the technology gains more traction in medicine. At Montefiore hospital in New York's Bronx, laid-off nurses have sounded the alarm about administrative AI they claim is replacing them.
In California, nurses at Kaiser Permanente are striking and picketing against AI monitoring their work and playing an expanding role in patient care. The most vocal advocates have emerged from unions such as National Nurses United, representing over 200,000 nurses, including those at Kaiser and Montefiore. As these workplace battles and negotiations persist, educators and researchers are focusing on the future, seeking to create solutions to support the next generation of nurses through training and involvement in the development and deployment of patient-facing AI.
By empowering nurses with a voice in AI's inevitable transformation of healthcare, they aim to transform the current adversarial relationship into a more collaborative dynamic.
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