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Illustrated banner celebrating the nurses, educators, and contributors behind the NCD AI Nursing Toolkit
Created By

Lincoln Gombedza, RN (LD) and Kelly Thobekile Ncube, SFHEA — Nursing Citizen Development CIC.

Theoretical Grounding

Built on Benner, Carper, Chinn & Kramer, and McCormack & McCance alongside NMC and NHS standards.

Open Academic Citation

Freely citable for nursing coursework, curricula, and CPD portfolios using the Harvard reference below.

Authors​

Co-Author & Founder

Lincoln Gombedza, RN (LD)

Registered Learning Disability Nurse and Practice Educator. Founder of Nursing Citizen Development CIC, championing the nurse citizen developer movement to help nurses and care teams shape, govern, and build safe digital and AI solutions.

Co-Author

Kelly Thobekile Ncube, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing (SFHEA) and Global Health Lecturer Volunteer Fellow, specialising in resuscitation and innovative AI-supported nursing education.

With thanks to​

Special thanks to the following people for their support, encouragement and insight:

  • Aisha Holloway, Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland
  • Professor Joanne Bosanquet, Chief Executive, Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS)
  • Kumbi Kariwo, Health Inequalities Lead, Nurse Citizen Developer and expert in wound and skin-tone bias and coded bias in AI
  • Hector Musonza, Practice Education and Preceptorship Lead
  • Dr Clare Cable, Chief Executive, Burdett Trust for Nursing
  • Professor Gemma Stacey, Mentor and Programme Director, Nursing Now Challenge
  • Josie Rudman MBE, NHS England
  • Rohit Sagoo, Children's Nurse and Mentor
  • Dr Hellena Habte-Asres, Clinical Academic Nurse and Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Janet Michel, Executive Director, Global Health Mentorships
  • Winnie George, Co-Founder, Amaree Women's Network, and Nurse Citizen Developer
  • Kelly Thobekile Ncube, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing (SFHEA)

Thanks are given in a personal capacity. Being named here doesn't mean that a person or their organisation endorses the toolkit.

Sources and credits​

  • Nursing theory: the toolkit's lenses draw on the work of Patricia Benner, Barbara Carper, Peggy Chinn and Maeona Kramer, and Brendan McCormack and Tanya McCance. See the reading list.
  • Free course finder: the technology layers come from Aiswarya Venkitesh's "Full AI/ML Engineer Stack 2026-27" infographic.
  • Professional and public bodies: guidance from the NMC, NHS England, the MHRA, the ICO and GOV.UK is linked and cited throughout. See Licence and terms.

How to cite this toolkit​

Gombedza, L. and Ncube, K. T. (2026) NCD AI Nursing Toolkit: AI Through the Nursing Process. Nursing Citizen Development CIC. Available at: https://practicedev.cloud/

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