Memo
“Wall Street’s takeover of US health-care infrastructure and Silicon Valley’s introduction of gig nursing apps are a dangerous duo that is eroding our health-care system and eviscerating our ability to take care of each other.”
Must read:
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/uber-for-nursing/
#GigEconomy #HealthIndustry #Nursing #HealthEconomy #Exploitation #NoEmpathy
This is real bad #ScienceFiction.
Roosevelt InstituteUber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt InstituteThrough original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to provide certainty about scheduling and the amount or nature of work, take little to no accountability for worker safety, and can threaten patient well-being by placing nurses in unfamiliar clinical environments with no onboarding or facility training.