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Nurses want a seat at the table when it comes to AI in healthcare

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Nurses have a tough job. AI tools promise to take care of some of the more mundane and repetitive tasks that eat up so much time and, by extension, money in healthcare. But often these AI efficiency initiatives can be a bit top down without much consideration for how workers actually do their jobs. So, some nurses unions are bargaining over AI. Claire Keenan-Kurgan of Interlochen Public Radio has this story.

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0:00.0

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0:10.1

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0:16.2

Nurses want a say in the rollout of AI.

0:20.3

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

0:23.3

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

0:34.1

Nurses have a tough job.

0:36.7

AI tools promise to take care of some of the more mundane and repetitive

0:41.2

tasks that eat up so much time and by extension money in health care. But often these AI

0:48.6

efficiency initiatives can be a bit top down without much consideration for how workers actually do their jobs.

0:57.0

So some nurses unions are bargaining over AI.

1:01.5

Claire Keenan Kergan of Interlock and Public Radio has this story.

1:06.5

A few months ago, the nurses union at Munson Medical Center, a hospital in Traverse City, Michigan, organized a rally.

1:14.3

We're the Traverse City Munson Nurses Association?

1:18.9

Union President Laura Nilsson stood at the front of the room listing the union's demands in their new contract.

1:25.5

Things like higher staffing numbers and also regulations around artificial intelligence.

1:31.4

We understand technology is coming.

1:33.2

We generally want it to be good for us and our patients.

1:36.2

But right now there's a lot of unknowns.

1:37.7

What we don't want technology to do is replace nursing judgment.

1:41.4

We don't want it to take jobs.

1:43.2

Companies are developing AI tools that do

1:46.2

everything from taking notes on appointments to proposing real diagnoses based on someone's medical

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