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AI basics for nurses

How LLMs work, why they hallucinate, and what that means for care.

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Nursing Process

AI through the nursing process

Overview of Assess, Plan, Implement and Evaluate with AI.

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Nursing Process

1. Assess

AI scribes, history-taking, early anchoring and data protection.

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Nursing Process

2. Plan

Person-centred goals, plain language and avoiding generic plans.

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Nursing Process

3. Implement

Accessible information, rehearsed conversations and bedside presence.

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Nursing Process

4. Evaluate

Evaluating care outcomes and checking AI accuracy, gaps and equity.

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Nursing Lenses

Three nursing lenses

Values, Ways of Knowing, and Novice to Expert appraisal framework.

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Nursing Lenses

Person-centred practice

McCormack & McCance framework applied to AI tools.

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Nursing Lenses

Ways of knowing

Empirical, ethical, personal, aesthetic and emancipatory knowing.

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Nursing Lenses

Novice to expert

Benner’s five stages matched to safe AI supervision.

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Fields of Nursing

Adult nursing

Deterioration, NEWS2, sepsis, medicines and discharge summaries.

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Fields of Nursing

Children & young people's nursing

Gillick competence, family confidentiality, safeguarding and dosing.

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Fields of Nursing

Community & district nursing

Recording in homes, lone working, mobile devices and carer guides.

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Fields of Nursing

Learning disability nursing

Mental Capacity Act, diagnostic overshadowing and co-checked Easy Read.

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Fields of Nursing

Maternity, neonatal & family care

Perinatal equity, sensitive records and listening to families.

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Fields of Nursing

Mental health nursing

Therapeutic trust, AI scribes in distress, MHA 2025 and stigma.

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Microsoft Copilot & Platforms

Microsoft Copilot hub

NHS work accounts, green shield verification and M365 guide.

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Microsoft Copilot & Platforms

Copilot red lines (Printable Poster)

Traffic-light safe-use levels and five non-negotiable red lines.

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Microsoft Copilot & Platforms

Copilot prompt explorer (49 prompts)

Searchable library of 49 structured nursing prompts.

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Microsoft Copilot & Platforms

Comparing AI platforms

Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM and Perplexity compared.

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Accountable Use & Law

Guardrails for nurses (Printable Poster)

Ten core NCD rules of thumb for any AI tool.

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Accountable Use & Law

Governance, safety & the EU AI Act

NHS DCB0129/0160, MHRA medical devices, DUAA 2025 and EU AI Act.

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Accountable Use & Law

Ethics, equity & Net Zero

WHO/ICN ethics, moral crumple zones, cognitive debt and Greener NHS.

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Accountable Use & Law

AI scribes on placement

NHS England & MHRA rules for ambient voice technology on placement.

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Practice Development

Values clarification worksheet

Interactive 45-minute team exercise to agree a shared AI purpose.

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Practice Development

Claims, concerns and issues (CCI)

Interactive team evaluation worksheet before introducing AI.

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Practice Development

Person-centred checks for AI notes

Five checks to ensure AI-drafted notes keep the person’s voice.

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Teaching, Learning & Build

Curriculum, AI literacy & assessment

Council of Deans 2026 principles, Two-Lane assessment and SSSA.

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Teaching, Learning & Build

Free AI courses (100 courses)

Filterable directory of 100 free courses across platforms and health.

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Interactive Tools

Can I use this tool for this?

30-second interactive safety check before you prompt.

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Interactive Tools

Spot the error (4 clinical exercises)

Practise catching hallucinations, omissions and bias across APIE.

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The nursing process​

Nursing lenses​

Equity​

Beyond text​

Fields of nursing​

Microsoft Copilot​

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Accountable use​

Changing practice together​

Teaching and learning​

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