Nurses are using clinical AI tools less often than doctors and trust them less, according to Elsevier’s “Clinician of the Future 2026: Nurses Edition,” released on International Nurses Day.
The global survey found 41% of nurses use AI at work, against 57% of doctors. Only 42% of nurses say the tools are trustworthy. Nurses also reported feeling underrepresented in organizational decisions about which AI to buy and how to deploy it.
The report also documents workload pressure. Sixty-one percent of nurses said they are seeing more patients than a year ago. Forty-three percent said keeping up with medical advances has become difficult. Thirty-four percent said tiredness or exhaustion has impaired their ability to treat patients.
Asked what they want from AI, nurses pointed to tools that are easy to use (65%), thorough across sources (62%), transparent with citations (61%), safe (60%), and built on peer-reviewed content (60%).
Eighty percent of nurses said AI will not replace clinicians and will become a critical assistant within five to ten years.
The report is the nursing edition of Elsevier’s Clinician of the Future series and draws on responses from nurses in multiple countries.
Sources: Elsevier — Clinician of the Future 2026: Nurses · PR Newswire announcement
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