Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Nursing, and Sexual Health: Reassembling Care Networks in Digital Care

Area of Science:

• Nursing Science
• Digital Health
• Sociology of Health

Background:

• Sexual health is often overlooked in cancer care.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into healthcare.
• Understanding AI's impact on patient care is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

• To explore how AI influences the recognition and discussion of sexual health in cancer nursing.
• To provide conceptual insights into relational care, responsibility, and care networks.

Main Methods:

• Discursive paper utilizing Cyber Nursing, Fundamentals of Care, and actor-network theory.
• Informed by auto-netnographic study insights.
• Theoretically informed discursive approach for conceptual analysis.

Main Results:

• AI acts as a nonhuman actor, increasing visibility of sensitive issues like sexual health.
• Introduces concepts of 'weakly networked care' and 'reassembling care networks'.
• AI reshapes sociomaterial conditions for recognizing and integrating fundamental care.

Conclusions:

• AI can improve sexual health visibility but doesn't replace ethical care.
• Responsibility, continuity, and integration are rooted in nursing practice.
• AI complements the Fundamentals of Care framework by highlighting changing sociomaterial conditions.