How Does Gig Nursing Work Affect Patients, Nurses and Health Care Facilities?

Classifying nurses as contractors gives companies more power and limits workers’ ability to hold them accountable.

Shawnika Howell has been a nurse for 13 years, primarily in long-term care, but around the time of the winter 2021 COVID-19 surge, she decided to find some extra work through something new: an app called Clipboard. The app lets nurses and nurse aides book individual shifts for a set number of hours with health care facilities, get paid, and move on to the next gig. Essentially, it’s Uber for...

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