“What we saw during COVID-19, which we still see at this moment, is a radicalization of this workforce — they have to fight not only for the public, but really to protect their very lives,” said Michelle Mahon, director of nursing practice for National Nurses United.
https://19thnews.org/2025/04/nurses-unions-worker-protections/
the director of the National Institute of #ChildHealth & Human Development [#NICHD], the director of the #NIH’s Division of #Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, the director of the National Institute of #Nursing #Research [#NINR], & the director of the National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities [#NIMHD].
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >
#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #LockedUsers #LockedSellers #GAFAM #lecture #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination#speech #SurveillanceCapitalism #interoperability #competition #regulation #WorkersPower #BigData #sellers #users #TechnoFeudalism #employment #ratings #Uberisation #queries #JediBlue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #DataBrokers #AntitrustLaw #TechLayoffs #RegulatoryCaptures #TechnologicalAbuse #privacy #value #GiantPileOfShit #TechnicalMechanism #rankings #unions #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video #coporatocracy #monopoly
Foot-and-mouth disease detected in Slovakia https://www.byteseu.com/859401/ #equine #exotics #FarmAnimal #IndustryNews #Jobs #mrcvs.co.uk #MRCVSonline #nurses #nursing #PracticeManagement #PracticeManagers #PracticeStaff #Slovakia #SmallAnimal #veterinary #vets #Wildlife
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.
I wonder if the lucky home buyers payed attention to the disclosures when they bought homes in that development? Templeton, California, October 2014 #rotor #chopper #arresteddevelopment #nursing #nursinglife #putyourmoneyintoabluth #gettodachoppa
Wife just got home from the hospital. She was eating dinner while we talked.
Me: I moved your shoes into the closet.
Wife: Wait you touched my shoes?
Me: Yeah. I didn’t want the dog to get them.
Wife (dead serious): Go wash your hands. Now. *Thoroughly.*
Me: 
8 in 10 nurses report having been attacked at work in a one-year period. Health care workers are more than 4x as likely to be injured by workplace violence than workers in all other industries combined.
A #nursing professor explores the emotional toll of constant hypervigilance: https://buff.ly/qaykFu6
@crabmusket Holy shit! In the USA the poorer you are the less they pay you. Why isn’t this illegal?
“A January 2025 report from Groundwork Collective documents how increasingly nurses in the USA are hired through gig apps – "Uber for nurses” – so nurses never know from one day to the next whether they're going to work, or how much they'll get paid.
There's something high-tech going on here with those nurses' wages. These nursing apps – a cartel of three companies, Shiftkey, Shiftmed and Carerev – can play all kinds of games with labor pricing.
“Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.
“The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying.”
Do you want to your catheter inserted by a nurse on food stamps, who drove an Uber until midnight the night before, and skipped breakfast this morning in order to make rent?"
Nurses already had enough problems.
"Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.
The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying."
from https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/#enshittification-eh by @pluralistic
Anyone in the medical profession or the general public who looks down on nurses and their roles in the hospital and wider community should quit and go eat shite. They're everyone's first line of defense and at the forefront of patient care. Love you all you wonderful nurses 
Interessanter Podcast mit Prof. Alexandra Teynor und Dr. Lynn Leppla zur Entstehung von SMILe!
https://wiki.care-regio.de/Podcast/Telematik_in_der_Pflege_Projekt_SMILe
Das Projekt startete 2017 unter der Leitung von Prof. Sabina De Geest, Co-PI Dr. Lynn Leppla und Co-PI Dr. Sabine Valenta am @nursingresearch (INS) mit verschiedenen PhD-Subprojekten:
https://nursing.unibas.ch/de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/smile/
"In healthcare, the DSA endorsed the profit-driven policy of “herd immunity” as far back as 2020, originally promoted by the first Trump administration and the extreme right and which became state policy under the Biden administration. Jacobin has also favorably interviewed signatories of the pro-mass death Great Barrington Declaration in late 2020 and called for the reopening of schools, knowing they were significant vectors for the virus.
The organization has therefore been in political solidarity with policies which have produced the conditions which nurses face, including the near collapse of the healthcare system."
How the Democratic Socialists of America enforces unsafe staffing levels in Oregon hospitals
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/17/nxbx-f17.html
The grp compiled 2 lists, “#DEI Grants to Eliminate” & “DEI 10 Contracts to Eliminate,” detailing ~$380M from #NASA, #Labor Dpt, #Defense & #HHS. Most contracts were for #DEITraining, #ProfessionalDevelopment or workplace surveys. #Grants to cancel included $22.2M “#Nursing Workforce Diversity” program at #Health Resources & Services, to encourage nursing careers for minorities, & $8.35M “#FairHousing” initiative to promote racial #desegregation, incl’g by ending race based neighbor #harassment.
#HB386 prohibits #nursing contracts from containing Non-Compete clauses
PLEASE SUPPORT
(Labor committee 2/11)
Nobody’s employer should own them, especially not in #healthcare
Using AI in clinical assessments: The promise, pitfalls, and path forward
AI can transform nursing education, but only if introduced thoughtfully, responsibly, and in a way that respects the complexity and humanity at the core of the nursing profession. #nursing
I start my new job today as a student nurse. It's one step up from the job I've been doing (nursing assistant) and I feel so ready.
I'm contracted to this role for about a year - until I finish my related nursing degree and graduate. I can't wait to start (in about two hours from now!)
