AI Can’t Heal What It Doesn’t Feel: Why Nurses Must Lead the Resistance

Glennae Davis
Jun 9
2 min read

By Glennae Davis, RN, Founder of Glennae’s RX for Life®

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June 9th 2025

AI Can’t Heal What It Doesn’t Feel: Why Nurses Must Lead the Resistance The rise of AI in hospitals is not innovation—it’s invasion.

When you feed patient voices, fears, traumas, and dreams into a machine and call it "care," you are violating not only the essence of nursing but the ethical boundaries of medicine. AI isn’t here to help nurses—it’s being positioned to replace them.

Think about it: This isn’t about progress. It’s about profit. Automation companies promise cost-cutting by offloading the most human parts of our work: conversation, observation, connection. They’re erasing clinical judgment and replacing it with scripts—ones that can’t feel, smell, listen deeply, or understand nuance.

But here’s what AI doesn’t need:

❌ FMLA

❌ Rest

❌ Legal protection

❌ Equity training

AI doesn’t burn out. It doesn’t advocate. And it doesn’t pay the price when things go wrong. So I ask: Who is responsible when—not if—something goes wrong?

We’ve already seen biased algorithms, false alerts, and protocols pushed without thought. So why are hospitals still investing more in AI than in retaining their licensed, trained, and traumatized workforce?

At Glennae’s RX for Life®, we say: No more. Our Be Brave Book Bundle™ provides structured, nurse-led recovery so RNs can rest, reclaim their power, and return to work—not broken, but bold.

We offer a four-tier system that: