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Abstract
Background
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly changing academia and healthcare, particularly in nursing education through their ability to assist in creating clinical simulation scenarios. The key to effectively using these tools lies in prompt engineering, the careful crafting of inputs to guide AI outputs.
Aim
An initiative by nurse educators explored how prompt engineering, aligned with established simulation standards, could streamline scenario design.
Findings
The findings revealed variations in output quality and focus among different AI platforms (ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude), highlighting the need for careful selection and human oversight to ensure accuracy and relevance in AI-generated simulation content.
Conclusions
This iterative process of prompt refinement holds significant promise for creating more engaging and effective learning experiences, but AI serves as a tool that augments, not replaces, the expertise of nursing simulationists.
期刊介绍:
Clinical Simulation in Nursing is an international, peer reviewed journal published online monthly. Clinical Simulation in Nursing is the official journal of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL) and reflects its mission to advance the science of healthcare simulation.
We will review and accept articles from other health provider disciplines, if they are determined to be of interest to our readership. The journal accepts manuscripts meeting one or more of the following criteria:
Research articles and literature reviews (e.g. systematic, scoping, umbrella, integrative, etc.) about simulation
Innovative teaching/learning strategies using simulation
Articles updating guidelines, regulations, and legislative policies that impact simulation
Leadership for simulation
Simulation operations
Clinical and academic uses of simulation.