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Lisa G Johnson1, Olatunde O Madandola, Fabiana Cristina Dos Santos
1Author Affiliations: College of Nursing, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, Florida (Ms Johnson, Mr Madandola, Ms Priola, and Drs Yao, Macieira, and Keenan); and School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York (Dr Dos Santos).
Background:
Extensive time spent on documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) impedes patient care and contributes to nurse burnout. Artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support tools within the EHR, such as ChatGPT, can provide care plan recommendations to the perinatal nurse. The lack of explicit methodologies for effectively integrating ChatGPT led to our initiative to build and demonstrate our ChatGPT-4 prompt to support nurse care planning.
Methods:
We employed our process model, previously tested with 22 diverse medical-surgical patient scenarios, to generate a tailored prompt for ChatGPT-4 to produce care plan suggestions for an exemplar patient presenting with preterm labor and gestational diabetes. A comparative analysis was conducted by evaluating the output against a "nurse-generated care plan" developed by our team of nurses on content alignment, accuracy of standardized nursing terminology, and prioritization of care.
Results:
ChatGPT-4 delivered suggestions for nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes comparable to the "nurse-generated care plan." It accurately identified major care areas, avoided irrelevant or unnecessary recommendations, and identified top priority care. Of the 24 labels generated by ChatGPT-4, 16 correctly utilized standardized nursing terminology.
Conclusion:
This demonstration of the use of our ChatGPT-4 prompt illustrates the potential of leveraging a large language model to assist perinatal nurses in creating care plans. The next steps are improving the accuracy of ChatGPT-4-generated standardized nursing terminology and integrating our prompt into EHRs. This work supports our broader goal of enhancing patient outcomes while mitigating the burden of documentation that contributes to nurse burnout.
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