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Nursing + AI

AI is the new tool on the floor.

The question was never whether it would arrive. It is what a nurse checks before trusting it.

Most AI talk in nursing runs to two extremes: the tool that will free the nurse, or the machine that will replace the nurse. Both miss what is happening. The tools landing in real clinics are narrower. They draft a note, summarize a voicemail, sort a queue. They change where a nurse spends the day, not who the nurse is.

I build a few of these systems myself, so I write about them from the implementation side: where they break, what the vendor does not show you in the demo, and how to read a tool's evidence the same way you read a lab value.

Read the first piece: what AI actually changes on a nurse's shift.