- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
Quote from the article
One page of the company’s website compares a human nurse’s $90 per hour salary to an AI agent’s $9 an-hour running costs. Hippocratic claims its AI nurses outperform human nurses regarding bedside manner, education, and narrowly miss on satisfaction, according to a survey.
I don’t know of any tele-triage nurses that get paid $90 an hour. Moreover bedside manner does not equal telephone/video demeanor.
Lots of misunderstanding in this thread about how much nurses are billed at. That’s the fun part: Nurses are NOT billed.
In US hospitals, nursing services are bundled into the “room and board” cost. Which means there is no increase in billing charges for any increase in nursing labor.
It’s absolutely the worst part of hospital nursing in the States. We are a net cost for the hospital. No matter what we’re doing or how critical it is, the hospital is always incentivized to pay us as little as possible and cut costs by preventing us from spending more time with an individual patient. It’s an archaic holdover from a time before modern medical care when nurses were really just combo housekeepers and CNAs rather than educated medical professionals. It’s actually a huge problem.
Would you mind saying more about the medical role of a nurse? I’ve been trying to understanding it for a little bit, but felt weird about asking my nursing friends. I have some vague ideas, but I suspect I’m missing the depth and therefore the importance. No worries if you’re not up for it. I know it’s a big ask.