NURSES embracing artificial intelligence: A guide to artificial intelligence literacy for the nursing profession

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping health care, making AI literacy vital for nursing professionals. The Navigate AI basics, Utilize AI strategically, Recognize AI pitfalls, Skills support, Ethics in action, and Shape the future framework provides a structured approach to AI integration into nursing. Nurses need to understand AI's fundamentals and its impact on clinical practice and patient care, both in the classroom and at the bedside. Nurses can use AI effectively and responsibly by recognizing benefits, such as enhanced decisionmaking, and challenges, like biased data. Ethical considerations should guide AI usage in health care, with a commitment to frequent skill development. Nurses play a pivotal role in shaping the future by ensuring AI is applied to benefit their organizations and, more importantly, healthcare workers and patients. This AI literacy guide is designed to empower nurses to navigate and help build the future of health care and AI with confidence and competence. (c) 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).