Nurses’ Views on Artificial Intelligence and Professional Values: A Gap in Ethical Sensitivity

By
Gizem Kubat Bakir
Nermin Ocaktan
October 9, 2026

Digital Health

Objective:

To examine relationships among surgical nurses’ attitudes toward AI, ethical sensitivity, and professional nursing values.

Approach:

Design: Exploratory sequential mixed-methods study.
Constructs: Professional nursing values were operationalized across caring, professionalism, activism, justice, and loyalty. Ethical sensitivity referred to identifying ethical aspects of care and recognizing moral conflict in clinical decision-making.
Theoretical relationship: The study proposed that ethical sensitivity may mediate the relationship between attitudes toward AI and professional nursing values; the source also raises moderation as an alternative possibility.

Interpretation:

The study addresses whether surgical nurses’ attitudes toward AI are related to their professional nursing values and whether ethical sensitivity helps explain or conditions that relationship. The supplied excerpt presents the rationale and hypotheses but does not report results.

Limitations:

The supplied context does not include methods details, participant characteristics, results, or study limitations.

Nurses’ Views on Artificial Intelligence and Professional Values: A Gap in Ethical Sensitivity

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Original Source(s)

Artificial intelligence attitudes and nursing values: Ethical sensitivity gap

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