Potential uses of AI for perioperative nursing handoffs: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Situational awareness and anticipatory guidance for nurses receiving a patient after surgery are keys to patient safety. Little work has defined the role of artificial intelligence (AI) to support these functions during nursing handoff communication or patient assessment. We used interviews to better understand how AI could work in this context.

Materials and methods

Eleven nurses participated in semistructured interviews. Mixed inductive-deductive thematic analysis was used to extract major themes and subthemes around roles for AI supporting postoperative nursing.

Results

Five themes were generated from the interviews: (1) nurse understanding of patient condition guides care decisions, (2) handoffs are important to nurse situational awareness, but multiple

SUBMITTER: King CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10019806 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature