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The AFT launched a major national campaign to shine a spotlight on and address the country’s dire healthcare staffing crisis.
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Inside building 14 at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center—a wing dedicated to mental health and substance use—Nathan Hultstrom spends his shifts ensuring that he and his fellow peer recovery specialists are keeping their patients safe and cared for.
AFT member Beverly Grace has seen how vaccinations protect children and communities from preventable disease. Now, as federal vaccine recommendations shift, the Baltimore County public health nurse worries that confusion, misinformation and barriers to vaccination could reverse decades of progress.
For Erika Taylor, the idea of forming a union began during a lunch break.
Earlier this year, the Cicero Institute, a conservative think tank, unveiled model legislation that would create a licensing pathway for artificial intelligence systems—an approach the institute promotes as a solution to healthcare worker shortages, gaps in access and rising costs.
AFT nurses and healthcare professionals used the Sunday morning convention session to highlight the growing momentum behind their Code Red campaign, celebrating recent victories while laying out an ambitious agenda to improve safe staffing, protect patient care and hold healthcare corporations accountable.
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in healthcare has drawn growing concern from nurses and health professionals. But according to researcher Katie Wells, another transformation is quietly reshaping the profession—one that could have lasting consequences for workers, patients and the future of healthcare itself.
Members of the AFT Nurses and Health Professionals division were encouraged to use the power of their collective voice to advance the resolutions they want to see adopted at the AFT 2026 convention in Washington, D.C., during their divisional meeting July 16.
Nearly a year has passed since President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as the Big Ugly Bill, into law; a recent report identifies hundreds of hospitals at heightened risk of closure and reduced services due to cuts imposed by the measure.
A plan to close the inpatient maternity unit at Grady Memorial Hospital in Delaware County, Ohio, has drawn opposition from the Ohio Nurses Association and Delaware County residents.