Learn to use AI confidently in nursing work — practice, check its output, and build your own playbook.
AI for Nursing Practice is a fully online, 48-hour program built on the professional standards that govern nursing education and practice in the United States. Every module is mapped to the AACN Essentials, grounded in the ANA's ethical guidance on artificial intelligence, and structured to meet the criteria for accredited nursing continuing professional development (NCPD).
The practice gap this program closes. Health systems are deploying AI (ambient documentation, early-warning and sepsis models, patient-message drafting, AI-generated evidence summaries) faster than nurses are being prepared to use it. Accountability for care does not transfer to the tool: the nurse who signs the note or acts on the alert remains responsible. Yet published evidence shows these tools can be wrong in consequential ways. A widely used sepsis model missed about two-thirds of sepsis cases on external validation, and large language models routinely fabricate references. Nurses need the knowledge to understand these tools, the skills to verify their output, and the judgment to override them. This program builds all three and measures them through performance-based assessment, not attendance.
The Responsible AI - AI Governance Certification for Healthcare Professionals pathway accompanies AI Fundamentals. Certification is earned only after approved assessment and award requirements are met. Responsible AIAI Governance Certification for Healthcare Professionals
Module time: 8 units of 60 minutes each, plus practice exams and a proctored certification exam. Estimated total preparation: 15–20 hours. Learners who pass the optional AI Governance Certification for Healthcare Professionals – Nursing Practice, will earn an IT certification. It is not a nursing specialty certification.
Module 1
Responsible AIAI Governance Certification for Healthcare ProfessionalsHow does AI work, and how can I use it effectively and responsibly in healthcare?
Outcome: Understand AI technologies, prompting, practical applications, limitations, verification, and responsible governance.
Playbook: Personal AI toolkit with prompts, use cases, verification checklists, and safety guidelines.
$450.00
One-time foundation, recognized across professions
Module 2
How can I transform supplied facts without adding or leaving out information?
Outcome: By the end of this module, learners will be able to evaluate and correct AI-assisted documentation and communication, coordinate a patient follow-up workflow, and explain their verification, approval and escalation decisions.
Playbook: Documentation workflow and verification checklist
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals
Module 3
How can AI improve patient communication while preserving trust, empathy, accuracy, and nursing judgment?
Outcome: Evaluate AI communication tools, evidence, risks, and governance; draft, verify, and deliver patient education using teach-back.
Playbook: AI Patient Communication Toolkit — verified messages, education templates, safeguards, and teach-back guides.
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals
Module 4
How can I use AI to find, evaluate, and apply trustworthy evidence while avoiding fabricated citations, bias, and misinformation?
Outcome: Find and critically appraise evidence, verify AI-generated claims and citations against original sources, and apply findings responsibly to nursing practice.
Playbook: AI Evidence & Research Toolkit — PICO question builder, evidence-search workflow, citation verification checklist, evidence matrix, and AI-use disclosure log.
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals
Module 5
How can I use AI-supported clinical insights to strengthen nursing judgment, recognize limitations, and make safer patient-care decisions?
Outcome: Interpret AI-generated clinical recommendations, recognize missing patient context and potential errors, exercise independent clinical judgment, and identify when to override, question, or escalate an AI-supported decision.
Playbook: Clinical Decision Support Toolkit — patient-context checklist, AI recommendation verification workflow, decision-support boundary map, and escalation guide.
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals
Module 6
How can I use AI and data analytics to identify care-quality problems, measure performance, and support meaningful improvements in nursing practice?
Outcome: Interpret healthcare data, reproduce basic calculations, identify patterns and potential biases, distinguish meaningful findings from misleading conclusions, and use AI-assisted analysis to support evidence-informed quality improvement.
Playbook: Quality Improvement & Data Toolkit — QI question builder, data-quality checklist, descriptive analysis workflow, results interpretation guide, and QI analysis brief.
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals
Module 7
How can I use AI responsibly while protecting patient safety, safeguarding health information, promoting fairness, and maintaining professional accountability?
Outcome: Evaluate AI tools and workflows for patient-safety hazards, privacy and security risks, bias, consent requirements, and ethical concerns; apply appropriate safeguards; and develop a clear plan for reporting and escalating AI-related problems.
Playbook: AI Safety, Privacy & Ethics Toolkit — AI tool-review checklist, patient-data flow map, privacy and consent assessment, bias and fairness review, governance requirements map, and safety-event reporting and escalation plan.
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals
Module 8
How can I bring together everything I have learned about AI to build a safe, effective, responsible, and continuously evolving AI-enabled nursing practice while advancing my professional development and leadership?
Outcome: Develop a personalized AI nursing practice that integrates clinical judgment, verification, governance, patient safety, privacy, and continuous improvement. Establish personal AI-use guidelines, demonstrate competencies gained throughout the program, build a professional learning portfolio, and identify opportunities for career growth and leadership in AI-enabled healthcare.
Playbook: My AI Nursing Practice Toolkit — personal AI practice charter, approved AI tools and verification checklists, competency self-assessment, governance and safety portfolio from Modules 2–7, professional development and credential roadmap, 90-day leadership action plan.
$99.00
$75.00 with AI Fundamentals