Algorithms on the Ward: The Fight Over AI Nurse Scheduling

A timeline tracing how hospital staffing moved from paper rosters and nurse-led self-scheduling to enterprise algorithms and AI platforms such as Palantir, and how scheduling errors, burnout, and patient-safety fears turned workforce management into a labor and regulatory battleground. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.