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Nurses who are responsible for and provide direct patient care services have been largely excluded from the policy and decision making process regarding the use of AI integrations.
There is insufficient evidence as to how these AI tools will support and potentially impede clinical discernment at the bedside.
There is an entire branch of PhD prepared nurses across the country who have informatics and deep knowledge and experience with generative and agentic AI. Yet they are not being invited to collaborate and engage in policymaking decisions.
The implications are literally life and death. The nurse at the bedside will be held liable or subject to disciplinary sanctions should the technology not align with the art of nursing, the humanistic piece that no machine or technology can intuit and nuance. There are 10,000,000,000 shades of gray that require a human.
AI is inaccurate and makes flawed assumptions and is fraught with bias. In the best of isolated conditions.
Healthcare is a complex adaptive system that is human centered. Putting a layer of AI between the nurse and those in their care is a reductionistic insertion that undermines the entire point of nursing care.
Patients need humans. Humans need humans. Who or what would you prefer to deliver your hospital care? Or for your spouse? Mother? Children? An impersonal and often inaccurate technology masquerading as human-like or a human that is using all ways of knowing, being, and doing?
Who do you want holding your hand when you draw your last breath?