AI and Nursing: Are We Ready?
Three considerations about nursing and AI.
Lisiane Pruinelli
In my role as a nursing professor under the University of Florida Artificial Intelligence Initiative (ai.ufhealth.org) and in leading several national and international efforts, I apply what I’ve learned in years of clinical and educational experience to articulate the implications of AI for the nursing profession.
Doing so, I see three broad considerations that will affect the profession’s future. 1) The need to take into account the history of the nursing profession and the fact we are the most trusted profession in the US, 2) The question of how we can best incorporate new technologies and/or ideas into the care we deliver every day, and 3) The issue of how we can build the new generation of nurses while also training current nurses in order that they can play a role at the forefront of the AI/health care revolution while continuing to be strong advocates for safe and ethical care.
These three considerations are elaborated below:
- Nursing is the most trusted profession in the United States. Since the early conception of nursing as a profession, nurses have been and still are the ones standing by every patient/client 24/7. Nurses go to war to care for people; nurses are in […]
