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Nancy Hagans

President of National Nurses United and the New York State Nurses Association

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While we support innovation in technology that helps our patients, our patients shouldn’t be put at risk so that Wall Street billionaires can get richer from rolling out untested artificial technology in our hospitals before it has been proven safe and free from bias.

Nancy Hagans

President of National Nurses United and the New York State Nurses Association

In a September 2024 union account, Nancy Hagans said her union supports technology that helps patients but hospitals should not roll out untested AI before it is proven safe and free from bias.

President of the New York State Nurses AssociationPublished September 19, 2024 · date of remarks not establishedAI and the Future of Work conference in Ithaca, as reported by the New York State Nurses Association

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On Saturday, President Hagans gave a presentation on the ways that AI is showing up in healthcare settings and the impact it has on nurses. In closing her presentation, President Hagans said "While we support innovation in technology that helps our patients, our patients shouldn’t be put at risk so that Wall Street billionaires can get richer from rolling out untested artificial technology in our hospitals before it has been proven safe and free from bias." NYSNA will continue to fight to ensure that frontline nurses have a voice in the decision-making process when it comes to implementing new technology in the work place, AI or otherwise, because when we fight, we win! Send an Email!

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  • The following sentence says NYSNA will seek a frontline-nurse voice in decisions about implementing AI and other workplace technology; it reinforces the deployment condition rather than opposing all innovation.

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Patient advocacy is at the core of what we do as nurses. That’s why we’re demanding safe staffing and protections against untested technologies such as A.I. We see the harm that these cost-cutting schemes cause our patients on a daily basis.

Nancy Hagans

President of National Nurses United and the New York State Nurses Association

In an April 2025 National Nurses United article, Nancy Hagans said nurses were demanding safe staffing and protections against untested AI and that hospital cost-cutting schemes harm patients daily.

A president of National Nurses UnitedPublished April 21, 2025 · date of remarks not establishedNational Nurses United article about January 16 nationwide nurse actions

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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 advocacy is at the core of what we do as nurses. That’s why we’re demanding safe staffing and protections against untested technologies such as A.I. We see the harm that these cost-cutting schemes cause our patients on a daily basis.” In 2024, NNU released its Guiding Principles for A.I. implementation that promotes quality patient care, safety, and equity.

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  • The article says National Nurses United has guiding principles for AI implementation focused on care, safety, and equity, so the position seeks protections rather than rejecting all AI use.

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