Clinical nurse leader

A genetics nurse works with people who either have, or are at risk for hereditary diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.

A quality improvement nurse helps improve the quality of care that nurses provide in a hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Remember those clunky voice assistants from the early days of the internet? Well, the AI technology behind them has evolved dramatically and thanks to the power of Generative AI, we’re now talking to a new breed of conversational digital agents. These advanced AI agents can hold meaningful conversations with patients, offering multilingual support and knowledgeable guidance on a range of health issues. With these new capabilities, there is growing interest -- even excitement -- in Generative AI’s potential to improve access to care, address workforce shortages, and enable clinicians to reach people and communities and connect them to care and resources in ways we haven’t thought possible.

The AACN CSI Academy helps direct care nurses become clinician leaders and change agents, driving positive outcomes for patients and healthcare teams.

AI-based technologies are helping solve complex problems in nearly every discipline, industry, and human endeavor. And in healthcare, artificial intelligence is a game-changer. But the application of AI also comes with a lot of questions, possibilities and well-founded concerns. In this first episode – of many to come exploring AI’s role in transforming healthcare – we’re starting by looking at the basics of AI and how these fits into the big picture.