Will AI Replace Nurses? Quiz

Answers and explanations appear as you take the quiz.

1. Which nursing task in the guide is described as information work that AI is getting good at?
   • Starting an IV line
   • Drafting shift notes from a recorded conversation
   • Repositioning a patient to prevent pressure injury
   • Refusing an unsafe medication order
2. What does the guide say hospital robots like Moxi mostly do today?
   • Take vital signs independently
   • Fetch and deliver items such as supplies and specimens
   • Administer scheduled oral medications
   • Perform bedside patient teaching
3. Why does the guide say passing licensing exam questions does not mean an AI can practice nursing?
   • Exams are easier than they used to be
   • Exams test tidy written cases, while practice involves incomplete information, physical assessment and responsibility
   • AI models are not allowed to take exams
   • Exam questions are published online in advance
4. What did the 2021 external validation study of a widely used sepsis model find?
   • It detected sepsis earlier than any nurse
   • It missed many sepsis cases and produced many false alerts
   • It worked only in pediatric units
   • It was withdrawn before any hospital used it
5. What happens when a predictive model's alert threshold is set very low?
   • It catches more true cases but produces many more false alarms
   • It stops producing alerts entirely
   • It becomes immune to dataset shift
   • It no longer needs nursing documentation as input
6. According to the technical section, what did research such as the CONCERN project use as an early warning signal?
   • Patients' social media posts
   • Patterns in how often nurses checked vitals or wrote comments
   • Hospital parking lot occupancy
   • Insurance claim codes from prior years
7. Which risk does the guide describe as more realistic than outright replacement?
   • Nurses being required to program AI models
   • AI forecasts being used to justify thinner staffing
   • Hospitals banning computers on nursing units
   • Patients refusing all AI-assisted care
8. Why does the guide say workforce trends argue against AI replacing nurses?
   • Nursing schools are closing worldwide
   • Aging populations increase demand for hands-on care, and agencies project continued RN job growth and shortages
   • AI companies have promised not to build nursing tools
   • Nurses are legally protected from automation