Nurse Says Artificial Intelligence Has Become Part of Everyday Medical Charting—’AI Is In There Now’

As AI becomes more widely integrated into health care, some clinicians are raising concerns about its role in patient care. In a video, one nurse discussed concerns about AI becoming more integrated into clinical work. In a viral video, the nurse talks about how they have seen other nurses using Google and AI chatbots to look up patient symptoms and medical questions.

According to the nurse, AI is now integrated into the electronic systems used for daily charting. "AI is in there. It can summarize any notes. It can create notes. It can do deep dives for you. It's built into our electronic health records. What we use to chart every day, AI is in there now," she said in the video.

Mostly recently this was seen in season two of HBO's The Pitt, where they began utilizing AI to assist with their charting. As the show detailed, it is not a foolproof practice and is more trouble than it is worth.

The nurse goes on to say that the newest doctors and nurses are going to be some of the most reliant clinicians on AI.

"It's not leaving. It's just getting started," she says in the video.

Commenters Debate the Growing Use of AI in Health Care

One X commenter wrote, "Here not to long ago around June. I was at my respiratory Dr’s office. They wanted me to sign a form giving them permission for them to use AI in helping Dr’s with diagnosing me. I said absolutely not! If a Dr can’t figure it out then why would think AI can? works off human input."

Others, however, did not share that sentiment and rallied for the AI implementation into healthcare.

"Actually it’s very helpful. Just like looking at a medical textbook or pharmacology book. Just faster. There is no way you can know everything in medicine- knowledge is expounding exponentially every year. And you don’t know what you don’t know," another X user said, defending its use in medical settings.

Some commenters argued that AI may be most useful when used as a supplemental tool rather than a replacement for clinical judgment. The discussion raised concerns about whether AI could eventually lead clinicians to rely less on traditional methods of research and learning. The discussion also raised questions about how reliance on AI could affect knowledge retention.

"Well, just wait until those doctors get their blue slip because they’re no longer needed. Oh, and one more thing. When the lady was ask if it was OK for the doctor to record their session through AI I would’ve ask, is it OK to record this on my phone?" one user asked.

The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the experiences described in the video, which reflects the nurse's personal account of AI use in health care.