To reimagine and transform nursing with AI
We focus on nurses — the largest sector of healthcare providers worldwide — and believe that every nurse has the right to use cutting-edge AI tools to advance people's health. Our mission is to advocate, educate, and study health AI tools to make them safe, equitable, and user-friendly.
1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Nursing: Advances, Methods and Path Forward (Halifax, Canada)
The workshop, organized by the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative, focused on AI in nursing and provided a platform for discussions about recent advances, cutting edge AI methods, and charting a path forward for nursing AI.
Artificial intelligence in nursing: social, ethical and legal implications (Geneva, Switzerland)
Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative (NAIL) organized the first international invitational expert think-tank workshop titled 'Artificial intelligence in nursing: social, ethical and legal implications'. The 3-day think-tank (October 23–25, 2019) held at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland invited 19 interdisciplinary participants from Canada, Finland, Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom.
News & highlights
Topaz, Peltonen et al. publish CITADEL study on fabricated citations in The Lancet
Max Topaz delivers TEDx talk on AI and nursing
AINurse-26 accepted at AIME 2026 — July 10, 2026, Ottawa
Michalowski, Topaz & Peltonen: An AI-Enabled Nursing Future with No Documentation Burden
Upcoming
AINurse-26 Workshop
AIME 2026 · Ottawa, Canada
Recent publications
CITADEL: Fabricated citations — an automated audit of citation integrity across 2.5 million biomedical papers
Topaz, Roguin, Gupta, Zhang, PeltonenAn AI-Enabled Nursing Future with No Documentation Burden: A Vision for a New Reality
Michalowski M., Topaz M., Peltonen L.M.The Overlooked Dark Side of Generative AI in Nursing: An International Think Tank's Perspective
Topaz M., Peltonen L.M., Michalowski M. et al.Get involved
Interested in membership, research collaboration, speaking, or sponsorship? The NAIL Collaborative welcomes nurses, researchers, students, and partners who share our mission.
News & highlights
Announcements, publications, workshops, and milestones from the NAIL Collaborative
Topaz, Peltonen et al. publish CITADEL study: an automated audit finds 4,046 fabricated citations in biomedical literature, rising 12× in three years
Max Topaz delivers TEDx talk on AI and nursing
AINurse-26 accepted at AIME 2026 — July 10, 2026, Ottawa, Canada
Michalowski, Topaz & Peltonen: An AI-Enabled Nursing Future with No Documentation Burden (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2025)
Topaz, Peltonen, Michalowski et al.: The Overlooked Dark Side of Generative AI in Nursing (Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2025)
AINurse-25 held in Pavia, Italy — co-located with AIME 2025
NAIL members participate in AI and Nursing Science Workshop at Penn Nursing, Philadelphia
NAIL Collaborative members participate in Brocher Foundation invitational workshop, Geneva
NAIL participates in NHS England AIR Roundtable for Nursing and Midwifery
AINurse-24 held in Salt Lake City, UT — co-located with AIME 2024
AINurse-23 held in Portorož, Slovenia — co-located with AIME 2023
Leadership group
Co-founders of the NAIL Collaborative
Charlene Ronquillo
Health informatician whose research focuses on health informatics, nursing, and health equity, underpinned by critical theory and implementation science. A key aim in their program of work is to ensure meaningful inclusion of non-dominant groups in the discourses, design, development, and implementation of health technologies. Charlene has experience using mixed methods, participatory, and co-production research and software design/development methods.
Laura-Maria Peltonen
Her research focuses on the responsible, human-centred integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare, with emphasis on the clinical evaluation of digital health solutions on patient, service and workforce outcomes. She is President-Elect of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, Chair of the Nursing Informatics Working Group and Institutional Members Officer at the European Federation for Medical Informatics.
Lisiane Pruinelli
Associate Professor in the College of Nursing with a joint appointment in the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, and part of UFHealth AI. A Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association with over 10 years of clinical experience in multi-transplant organ coordination and information systems. Her expertise applies cutting-edge data science methods to investigate the trajectory of complex disease conditions suitable for clinical implementation.
Martin Michalowski
Foundation Research Professor, Co-Director of the Center for Nursing Informatics, and Co-Leader of the Digital Health Lab at the University of Minnesota. Research spans information integration, record linkage, heuristic-based planning, constraint satisfaction problems, large language models, and AI methods in nursing informatics. Earned his PhD in Computer Science from USC; AAAI Senior Member (2018), FAMIA (2021), FIAHSI (2024). Author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Maxim (Max) Topaz
Elizabeth Standish Gill Associate Professor of Nursing at Columbia University Medical Center, affiliated with the Columbia University Data Science Institute and the Center for Home Care Policy & Research at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Research focuses on data science and innovative uses of text and data mining to improve human health. One of the pioneers in applying natural language and speech processing to data generated by nurses.
A wider network
Beyond the leadership group, NAIL's work draws on an international network of collaborators — including the 19 interdisciplinary experts from Canada, Finland, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom convened at the 2019 founding think-tank, and the co-authors of the collaborative's joint publications:
Publications
Selected peer-reviewed research, reviews, and position papers from NAIL members
CITADEL: An automated audit of citation integrity across 2.5 million biomedical papers uncovers 4,046 fabricated citations — growing more than 12× in three years
An AI-Enabled Nursing Future with No Documentation Burden: A Vision for a New Reality
The Overlooked Dark Side of Generative AI in Nursing: An International Think Tank's Perspective
Using graph rewriting to operationalize medical knowledge for the revision of concurrently applied clinical practice guidelines
ADscreen: A speech processing-based screening system for automatic identification of patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia
Home Health Care Clinicians' Use of Judgment Language for Black and Hispanic Patients: Natural Language Processing Study
Machine learning applied to electronic health record data in home healthcare: A scoping review
Artificial intelligence in health care: Implications for nurse managers
Artificial intelligence in nursing: priorities and opportunities from an international invitational think-tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative
Events
Workshops, conferences, courses, and think-tanks
AINurse-26: Fifth International Workshop on AI in Nursing
The fifth iteration of the AINurse workshop series will comprehensively explore AI technologies applied to nursing data and practice, including a keynote, panel, and research presentations. Organizers: Michalowski, Peltonen, Pruinelli, Ronquillo, Topaz.
Workshop websiteAINurse-25: Fourth Workshop on AI in Nursing
Comprehensively explored AI technologies applied to nursing data and practice. Included a keynote, a dedicated panel addressing current trends in nursing and AI, and discussions to identify future research directions for enhancing patient outcomes through AI.
Workshop websiteAI and Nursing Science Workshop
NAIL Collaborative members participated in this invitational workshop convening leading nurse scientists, AI experts, ethicists, and policymakers to explore AI's evolving role in nursing research, education, and practice.
Embedding nursing expertise in AI-based health technology development
Invitational workshop to identify the role nursing expertise plays in developing AI-based health technologies and determine how to embed nursing expertise in those technologies. Considered ethical, legal, and social implications.
Event pageUK
NHS England AIR Roundtable for Nursing and Midwifery
Dr. Maxim Topaz and Dr. Charlene Ronquillo were invited as experts to the Artificial Intelligence in Reality (AIR) Roundtable for Nursing and Midwifery. This event convened leading authorities in nursing informatics to deliberate on advancing AI integration in nursing and midwifery practices.
AINurse-24: Third Workshop on AI in Nursing
Featured a keynote by Prof. Gregor Štiglic on generative AI in nursing education and clinical use, and a dedicated panel on the practical and ethical implications of large language models such as ChatGPT in nursing.
Workshop website2121
Nursing Knowledge Management and Health Service Research Course
Postgraduate course (HOIT2121) organized by the NAIL Collaborative, delivered in English as part of the Doctorate in Nursing curriculum. Structured as 8h lectures, 8h seminars, and 90h independent work, focusing on applying research methodology to knowledge management in health services.
Course pageAINurse-23: Second Workshop on AI in Nursing
Focus was on research using AI technologies based on nursing data or intended for use by nurses. Included current AI applications, cutting-edge methods, and a panel on large language models like ChatGPT in nursing.
Workshop websiteHAL
AINurse-22: First Workshop on AI in Nursing — Advances, Methods and Path Forward
The inaugural AINurse workshop provided a platform for discussions about recent advances, cutting-edge AI methods, and charting a path forward. Included paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demos, and general discussion.
Workshop websiteAI in Nursing: Social, Ethical and Legal Implications — Founding Think-Tank
The first international invitational expert think-tank organized by the NAIL Collaborative. Invited 19 interdisciplinary participants from Canada, Finland, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Output was the highly cited foundational paper published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing (doi:10.1111/jan.14855).
Published paperResources
A curated starting point for nurses, researchers, students, and leaders exploring AI in nursing
Artificial intelligence in nursing: priorities and opportunities
The highly cited foundational paper from the collaborative's founding think-tank — the best single overview of where AI and nursing meet.
Read the paper J. Nursing Scholarship · 2025The Overlooked Dark Side of Generative AI in Nursing
An international think tank's perspective on the risks of generative AI in nursing — essential balance to the enthusiasm.
Read the paper J. Advanced Nursing · 2025An AI-Enabled Nursing Future with No Documentation Burden
A vision for a new reality: what nursing could look like when AI removes the documentation burden.
Read the paper The Lancet · 2026CITADEL: an automated audit of citation integrity
An automated audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers uncovering fabricated citations — research integrity in the age of AI.
Read the paperMax Topaz: AI and nursing
A TEDx talk on artificial intelligence and the future of nursing.
Watch on YouTube University of Turku · CourseNursing Knowledge Management and Health Service Research
Postgraduate course (HOIT2121) organized by the NAIL Collaborative as part of the Doctorate in Nursing curriculum.
Course pageOur annual workshop co-located with the AIME conference, running since 2022
Sponsors
Organizations supporting NAIL Collaborative initiatives
Contact
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General inquiries
For questions about the collaborative, research, membership, or sponsorship opportunities, reach us at ainurse@nailcollab.org
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Speaking opportunities
Interested in inviting NAIL members to speak at your event or institution? Reach us at ainurse@nailcollab.org or contact leadership members directly.
Community
Photos from NAIL workshops, conferences, and collaborative meetings around the world
NAIL Experts Participate in AI and Nursing Science Workshop (Philadelphia, USA)
NAIL Collaborative members were honored to participate in the AI and Nursing Science Workshop, hosted by Penn Nursing on January 30, 2025. This event convened leading nurse scientists, AI experts, ethicists, and policymakers to explore AI's evolving role in nursing research, education, and practice.