Nursing education must keep pace with AI adoption

With artificial intelligence tools rapidly entering clinical practice and classrooms, nursing leaders say educators will need to ensure students and practicing nurses are adept users. Health systems using AI-enabled tools may need to incorporate ongoing training programs treating AI literacy as a continuing competency instead of a one-time educational experience. Nursing schools may need to develop new training models, competency frameworks and policies covering AI ethics, privacy, transparency, patient safety and clinical accountability. Instruction could cover prompt evaluation, bias, data privacy, clinical accountability and the necessity of human oversight when managing AI-generated recommendations. Nurses also will need to be able to evaluate algorithmic risk to detect when a tool misses context or provides recommendations at odds with the patient’s condition. (Telehealth article, 7/7/26)