NATIONAL
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housands of registered nurse
members of National Nurses
United (NNU) held actions, includ-
ing marches, protests, and rallies,
on Jan. 16 to demand the hospital industry
ensure safe staffing levels and patient safe-
guards amidst the rapid introduction of
artificial intelligence technologies.
This year, more than 100,000 NNU
members are entering contract negotiations
with their employers, including multibil-
lion-dollar health care organizations such as
UCHealth and Dignity Health. In negotia-
tions, nurses plan to confront industry
decisions that undermine patients' health
and well-being and fail to address chronic
RN recruitment and retention issues—in
favor of increasing profits.
"Nurses across the country are taking to
the streets to let our communities know that
in 2025, as in all years past, we are committed
to providing the highest quality of care for
every patient," said Nancy Hagans, RN and
a president of NNU. "We will fight fearlessly
against the profit-driven hospital industry,
which seeks to undermine nursing care
through unconscionable understaffing and
reckless automation."
Nurses say solutions, such as mandated
nurse-to-patient ratios and guaranteed
workplace violence prevention plans, will
help address the hospital staffing crisis by
returning nurses to the bedside.
Hagans, RN continued, "Patient advo-
cacy is at the core of what we do as nurses.
Nurses march nationwide for safe staffing,
patient protections against A.I.
100,000 National Nurses United members bargain new contracts in 2025
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