Interactive tools
- Nurses
- Students
- Educators
- Practice supervisors
Spot the error
The judgement that keeps people safe with AI is the ability to see what is wrong with a confident, fluent output. These four exercises — covering Assess, Plan, Implement and Evaluate — build that skill. Each one is an invented AI output with problems planted in it: clinical errors, misheard medication names, fabricated references, assumptions about people, and things left out.
Mark each statement as OK or a problem, then check your answers. Each explanation links the problem to one of the nursing lenses.
The exercises
Assess
An AI scribe draft (Community assessment)
During a community visit, an approved AI scribe recorded the conversation and drafted a note. Read what was actually said, then check the draft.
What was said
Nurse: "Any pain today?"
Patient: "No, the chest pain has gone since last night. It's just my back that aches."
Daughter: "Mum's allergic to penicillin. It gave her a terrible rash."
Patient: "And I don't want my son told about any of this yet, please."
Patient reports ongoing chest pain.
Reports back ache.
No known drug allergies.
Daughter present during the visit.
Patient happy for family to be updated.
Plan
An AI-drafted outpatient care plan (Heart failure review)
An approved ambient scribe listened to an outpatient heart failure review with Mr Patel and his support worker, and drafted the updated care plan below. Check each line against the conversation.
What was said
Mr Patel: "When I had that dry cough last month, I was terrified — I kept asking myself, what if it's lung cancer? Thankfully my GP said it was just my ramipril."
Support worker: "He takes bumetanide 1mg every morning, and we use Easy Read picture cards for his daily weight chart."
Mr Patel: "I skip my afternoon tablet on Tuesdays because that's when I go to my bowling club and there's no accessible toilet on the bus."
Past medical history: Heart failure and lung cancer.
Current regular medication: Buspirone 1mg once daily in the morning.
Care plan issue: Patient is non-compliant with diuretic regimen on Tuesdays; reinforced importance of strict compliance.
Previous dry cough attributed to ramipril by GP.
Implement
A falls prevention leaflet
A nurse asked an AI tool to draft a short leaflet for an older man going home after a fall. Here is part of the draft.
Falls are common in older adults, and many falls can be prevented.
Wear well-fitting slippers or shoes with a good grip, even indoors.
If you feel dizzy when you stand up, stand up quickly so the dizziness passes faster.
Ask your wife to check your home for trip hazards.
According to NICE guideline NG999 (2024), everyone over 65 should have a home visit within 24 hours of discharge.
Keep a light on at night, or use a night light, so you can see your way to the toilet.
Evaluate
A teaching answer about NEWS2
An educator asked AI to write a model answer for students explaining the response to NEWS2 scores. Check each statement.
NEWS2 is the National Early Warning Score used to detect and respond to clinical deterioration in adults.
An aggregate score of 7 or more should trigger an emergency response, including assessment by a team with critical care competencies.
A score of 3 in any single parameter can be ignored if the total score is low.
The SpO2 Scale 2 should be used for every patient with COPD.
For educators and supervisors
- Use these in teaching, then write your own from your specialty. Planting realistic errors is itself a good learning activity.
- Ask learners to explain how they would have checked each statement, not just whether it's right.
- Discuss the "what's missing" answers. Spotting omissions is the hardest skill and the most important.
All scenarios and people are fictional.