Résumés
Abstract
Introduction: The availability and use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is accelerating significantly. As these technologies proliferate, many post-secondary institutions have responded by banning students from using AI tools such as ChatGPT and framing the conversation as breaches of academic integrity.
Background: Despite these institutional responses, many students adopt these tools as part of their learning journey. In health care settings, the adoption of such tools in the context of patient care provision is a reality. Consequently, there is a relevant pedagogical opportunity to examine how such tools inform the experiential learning of nursing students and their future practice.
Methods: To address the dearth of information regarding nursing students’ perceptions of using AI tools, a Canadian university teaching team incorporated ChatGPT into an undergraduate nursing course assignment. A pilot quasi-experimental pre-post-test survey design was employed to examine student perceptions of using ChatGPT. After obtaining institutional ethics approval, a neutral third party collected the anonymous data.
Findings: Pilot study results highlighted significant student concerns regarding the ethics of using AI tools. Additionally, students described such tools as meaningful avenues to support learning access and equity. Finally, students identified a high probability of use of AI tools in their future practice, suggesting that exposure and support during learning can positively influence responses to these tools in practice settings.
Conclusion: The students surveyed are now practising nurses; thus, findings may provide insight into perceptions of new nurses regarding the integration of AI to support competencies required by the nurses of tomorrow.
Keywords:
- nursing students,
- pedagogy,
- ChatGPT,
- AI tools,
- survey
Résumé
Introduction : La disponibilité et l’utilisation d’outils d’intelligence artificielle (IA) connaissent une croissance fulgurante. Face à la prolifération de ces technologies, de nombreux établissements d’enseignement supérieur ont réagi en interdisant aux étudiantes et étudiants d’utiliser des outils d’IA comme ChatGPT, qualifiant ces moyens de violations de l’intégrité académique.
Contexte : Malgré ces réponses institutionnelles, de nombreux étudiantes et étudiants utilisent ces outils dans le cadre de leur parcours d’apprentissage. Dans les milieux de santé, l’utilisation de tels outils en contexte de soins aux patients est une réalité. Il existe donc une occasion pédagogique pertinente d’examiner comment ces outils éclairent l’apprentissage expérientiel des étudiantes et étudiants en sciences infirmières ainsi que leur future pratique.
Méthodes : Pour pallier le manque de connaissances sur la perception des étudiantes et étudiants en sciences infirmières quant à l’utilisation d’outils d’IA, une équipe pédagogique d’une université canadienne a intégré ChatGPT à un cours de premier cycle en sciences infirmières. Une étude pilote utilisant un devis quasi expérimental pré-test et post-test à l’aide d’un sondage a été menée pour examiner la perception étudiante quant à l’utilisation de ChatGPT. Après avoir obtenu l’approbation éthique de l’établissement, un tiers neutre a recueilli les données anonymes.
Résultats : Les résultats de l’étude pilote ont mis en évidence d’importantes préoccupations des étudiantes et étudiants concernant l’éthique de l’utilisation d’outils d’IA. Les étudiantes et étudiants ont également décrit ces outils comme des moyens pertinents de favoriser l’accès à l’apprentissage et l’équité. Enfin, les étudiantes et étudiants ont identifié une forte probabilité d’utiliser des outils d’IA dans leur pratique future, ce qui suggère que l’exposition et le soutien pendant l’apprentissage peuvent influencer positivement les réactions à ces outils dans les contextes professionnels.
Conclusion : Les étudiantes et étudiants qui ont participé au sondage sont désormais des infirmières et infirmiers qui exercent la profession; ainsi, les résultats peuvent donner un aperçu des perceptions des nouvelles infirmières et nouveaux infirmiers concernant l’intégration de l’IA pour soutenir les compétences requises par les infirmières et infirmiers de demain.
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