Hello fellow educators!
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We have come to the last email of another series 🥹, but an end is often the start of a new beginning.

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If you missed the short articles, you can catch up here:

​Week 1 - Introduction

​Week 2 - Independent Inquiry

​Week 3 - Trust vs Traps

​Week 4 - Evaluation Evolution

Week 5 - [🌟THIS EMAIL] - Recommended Resources

In concluding this series on AI and how it could intersect with nursing education, I want to end where I began by encouraging our own independent inquiry.

Our mindset in how we approach this is going to be extremely important. Right now is the time to embrace experimentation. So give yourself grace and time to investigate, experiment, and gather information. Work with AI to help you get “clay on the table.” Instead of thinking of it as writing something for you, think of it as writing with you.

Here are a few other tips and resources that I found helpful in researching as I wrote these articles.

💻 Understand the Basics of how AI Works - I liked this free course on AI from Andrew Ng. It covers the basics as well as eases some fears.

🏔️ Don’t try to be an expert on everything AI - choose an application that seems interesting to you or investigate ways it could help with your workload. You don’t have to learn it all. Just focus on one project. If you don’t know where to begin, start by trying ChatGPT for assistance with writing.

📖 Continue to read and research - The literature around AI is growing, and I know nurse researchers are investigating and gathering data. I would love to hear if you have a proposal started or are involved in a research project around AI. Please send me any information; I would love to share it with this community. Keep an eye on the American Nurse’s Association’s work in the Reimagining Nursing Initiative, which includes grants for Practice-Ready Nurse Graduate projects that will disrupt nursing education. One of the pilots uses AI and VR as part of a simulation.

📰 This labor market report from the McKinsey Group was an interesting read. Even with employment fears around generative AI, jobs for healthcare professionals are growing and increasingly important as the general population ages. And as nurse educators working to fill this labor need with quality nurses, we are essential in the larger scope of ensuring adequate, equitable healthcare for all.

😬 Investigate both sides of the discussion. This short article does a great job summarizing what could go wrong with AI in nursing education.

🗂️ Finally, if you are interested in exploring the gradeless ideas as part of the evaluation evolution section - here are a few resources:

• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan Blum
• Grading for Growth by David Clark and Robert Talbert
• ​Unmaking the Grade Substack by Emily Pitts Donahoe

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My hope for this series is that you have started the conversation (the discussion within yourself is important too!) about AI and nursing education. Right now, there is time to experiment and be curious. Don’t feel rushed. There is something exciting about being a beginner, and we are all new to this skill.

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Looking forward to sharing more new ideas next week!

Until then, keep experimenting! Martha

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