Abstract:
Background: AI has become increasingly popular in the healthcare industry, particularly in nursing. AI helps healthcare professionals streamline their workflows, reduce errors and provide better care to patients. Aim: To assess challenges and barriers of using artificial intelligence as perceived by nursing personnel. Design: A descriptive research design was utilized. Setting: At EL Fayoum University hospitals. Subjects: All nursing personnel (250) were included in the study. Tools: Two tools were used for collecting data: Nursing Personnel's Knowledge about Artificial Intelligence Questionnaire and Nursing Personnel's Perception about Challenges and Barriers of Using Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Practice. Results: (58%) of the studied nursing personnel had incorrected knowledge about AI. While, (64.8%) of the studied nursing personnel had a positive perception about challenges and barriers of using AI in nursing practice. Additionally, there was a highly significant positive correlation between total knowledge score and total perception score about challenges and barriers of using AI in nursing practice. Conclusion: More than half of the studied nursing personnel had unsatisfactory level of knowledge about AI and near to two thirds of the studied nursing personnel had a positive perception about challenges and barriers of using AI in nursing practice. Recommendations: Encourage nurses to increase their knowledge and perception toward artificial intelligence through training programs and providing further education to enable them integrate AI into nursing practices. Introduce fundamentals of AI into nursing curricula. Further research should be carried out to assess the AI impact on the patient-nurse relationship.