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

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This exploratory sequential mixed-methods study examined surgical nurses’ attitudes toward AI, ethical sensitivity, and professional nursing values.
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AI can support clinical decision-making, care planning, patient monitoring, and data analysis, while raising concerns about privacy, accountability, and humanistic care.
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The study defined professional nursing values through caring, professionalism, activism, justice, and loyalty, and assessed ethical sensitivity with the Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire.
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The authors tested whether ethical sensitivity mediates or moderates the relationship between nurses’ attitudes toward AI and their professional values.
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The study addressed a gap in research by examining these constructs together in surgical nurses, a group not previously central to studies of AI adoption.

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