Nurses Don’t Trust Employers to Safely Implement AI Tools, Survey Shows

MedPage Today May 16, 2024
Shannon Firth

– Predictive models, chatbots may undermine clinical judgment and compromise patient care, they say

Three out of five nurses said they don’t trust their employer to place patient safety as the most important factor when using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, according to a survey from National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of RNs in the U.S.

Of more than 2,300 RNs and NNU members surveyed from January 18 through March 4, 60% disagreed with the statement, “I trust my employer will implement AI with patient safety as the first priority,” as detailed in a press release from the union.

Nurses said they are alarmed by the growing influx of unregulated AI tools in healthcare, including predictive models used to...

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