Perspective highlights the need for nurses to lead AI governance to ensure safety and ethical care.
Artificial intelligence is already influencing healthcare delivery, but nursing perspectives are not always central in its design, implementation or governance.This perspective highlights why nurses must lead artificial intelligence governance to protect patient safety, equity, professional judgement and human-centred care.It explains why artificial intelligence is a nursing issue, considers the risks of positioning nurses as passive users, outlines nurse-led evaluation and artificial intelligence literacy and offers governance and research priorities.The paper is relevant to nurse educators, clinical leaders, researchers, managers, regulators and policymakers preparing the nursing workforce for digital transformation.
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Sawsan Abuhammad (2026) studied this question.
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