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The integration of AI in nursing: addressing current applications, challenges, and future directions

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Wei, Qiuying, Pan, Songcheng, Liu, Xiaoyu, Hong, Mei, Nong, Chunying, Zhang, Weiqi·2025·Frontiers in Medicine

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing healthcare, providing transformative opportunities and challenges for nursing practice. This review critically evaluates the integration of AI in nursing, focusing on its current applications, limitations, and areas that require further investigation. A comprehensive analysis of recent studies highlights the use of AI in clinical decision support systems, patient monitoring, and nursing education. However, several barriers to successful implementation are identified, including technical constraints, ethical dilemmas, and the need for workforce adaptation. Significant gaps in the literature are also evident, such as the limited development of nursing-specific AI tools, insufficient long-term impact assessments, and the absence of comprehensive ethical frameworks tailored to nursing contexts. The potential of AI to reshape personalized care, advance robotics in nursing, and address global health challenges is explored in depth. This review integrates existing knowledge and identifies critical areas for future research, emphasizing the necessity of aligning AI advancements with the specific needs of nursing. Addressing these gaps is essential to fully harness AI's potential while reducing associated risks, ultimately enhancing nursing practice and improving patient outcomes.

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  • Mobile health and virtual care tools can help ensure that patients in under-resourced areas experience fewer gaps in care and more coordinated health services.

    “Mobile health and virtual care tools can enhance nursing workflows, improve clinical decision making, and help ensure that patients in under-resourced areas experience fewer gaps in care and more coordinated health services.4,5”

    From Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States of America (2026) · cites this paper as [5]

    Section 2.3 (page unavailable) says virtual nursing assistants can improve access to nursing services, and section 4.8 discusses developing AI nursing tools for underserved, resource-limited communities. The paper does not establish that mobile health and virtual care tools reduce gaps in care or make services more coordinated in those areas. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • The absence of nursing-specific AI frameworks hinders insight into long-term impacts of nursing-specific AI frameworks on nurse clinical workflow and patient outcomes.

    “This absence limits evaluation and improvement of AI tools and hinders insight into long-term impacts of nursing-specific AI frameworks on nurse clinical workflow and patient outcomes.4,5,7”

    From Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States of America (2026) · cites this paper as [5]

    Section 4.4 says nursing-tailored ethical frameworks are needed, and sections 4.1 and 4.5 say insufficient longitudinal research limits understanding of AI’s long-term effects on nursing practice and patient care. The paper does not say that the absence of nursing-specific frameworks causes that lack of insight or limits evaluation and improvement of AI tools; it treats frameworks and long-term studies as distinct needs. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Without diverse representative and contextually relevant training data, agentic AI may generate inaccurate, inequitable, or unsafe recommendations for marginalized populations.

    “while agentic AI may generate inaccurate, inequitable, or unsafe recommendations for marginalized populations.5,21,22”

    From Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States of America (2026) · cites this paper as [5]

    Section 3.1 says AI needs diverse, high-quality datasets to function effectively and avoid bias; section 3.2 says biased training data may produce discriminatory outcomes and worsen health disparities. Section 4.8 also calls for AI adapted to diverse populations and contexts. The paper does not specifically address agentic AI or establish that it generates unsafe recommendations for marginalized populations. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Without diverse representative and contextually relevant training data, empathic AI systems may misinterpret emotional cues across different cultural, linguistic or socioeconomic groups.

    “Without diverse representative and contextually relevant training data, empathic AI systems may misinterpret emotional cues across different cultural, linguistic or socioeconomic groups”

    From Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States of America (2026) · cites this paper as [5]

    Section 3.1, “Technical challenges,” says AI models need large, diverse, high-quality datasets to function effectively and avoid bias. Section 4.8, “Cultural and contextual adaptability,” calls for AI suited to diverse cultural contexts. Neither section addresses empathic AI misinterpreting emotional cues or identifies linguistic and socioeconomic groups as contexts for that risk. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Mobile health and virtual care tools can enhance nursing workflows.

    “Mobile health and virtual care tools can enhance nursing workflows, improve clinical decision making, and help ensure that patients in under-resourced areas experience fewer gaps in care and more coordinated health services.4,5”

    From Empathic and agentic artificial intelligence in nursing: perspectives on a human-centered framework for cancer care navigation in the United States of America (2026) · cites this paper as [5]

    Section 2.3 (Administrative and workflow optimization; page unavailable) says virtual nursing assistants handle routine inquiries, freeing nurses for more complex tasks. The Introduction also says nursing-specific AI tools can enhance workflows. The cited passages do not specifically establish that mobile health tools enhance nursing workflows. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Wei, Q., Pan, S., Liu, X., Hong, M., Nong, C., & Zhang, W.
Affiliations
First Affiliated Hospital of GuangXi Medical University (CN)
Corresponding author
Pan, Songcheng
Venue
Frontiers in Medicine
Published
2025-02-11
Volume
12
Pages
1545420-1545420
ISSN
2296-858X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4407382566
Cited by
143
References
114
Citations by year
2026: 89 · 2025: 53 · 2022: 1
FWCI
8.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Frontiers in Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Artificial Intelligence Applications
Keywords
artificial intelligence in nursing, clinical decision support systems, patient monitoring, nursing education, implementation barriers, AI ethics, workforce adaptation, individualized care, global health, patient outcomes

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