AI in Healthcare October 4, 2024
Nurses tend to feel optimistic if not exactly excited about AI’s advances into their profession. Those who hold back tend to share a common concern—sacrificing care quality for the sake of tech-enabled efficiency.
Market analysts at McKinsey name this among the top findings to shake out of a survey of more than 7,000 nurses conducted in partnership with the American Nurses Foundation.
The project report suggests some steps that nursing and hospital leaders can take toward melding nurses’ irreplaceable contributions with AI’s promising applications.
1. To encourage nurses’ buy-in, actively listen to nurses’ concerns.
Health system leaders and AI developers would to well to “consider nurses’ concerns about the quality of patient care,” the authors write, stressing that nurses are,...