Author(s)

Zhang Nan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ International School of Nursing, Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Haikou, 571137, China

Corresponding Author

Zhang Nan

ABSTRACT

With the continuous advancement of educational digitalization and medical intelligence, artificial intelligence, especially generative artificial intelligence, is profoundly reshaping teaching concepts, instructional organization, and learning modes in nursing education. Vocational undergraduate nursing education is characterized by strong practicality, a clear job-oriented focus, and rapidly updated knowledge, which makes it highly suitable for AI empowerment while also exposing it to such issues as superficial technological application, insufficient teacher literacy, data security risks, and academic integrity concerns. Based on the actual teaching context of vocational undergraduate nursing educators, this paper reviews the current application of artificial intelligence in nursing education, analyzes the main existing problems and their causes, and proposes optimization strategies from the perspectives of curriculum system construction, teacher training, teaching scenarios, evaluation mechanisms, ethical governance, and school-hospital collaboration. The study argues that artificial intelligence is not intended to replace teachers, but rather to become an important tool for restructuring the whole process of "teaching-learning-assessment-practice." Only by adhering to student competency development as the center, job competence as the orientation, and normative governance as the bottom line can artificial intelligence truly contribute to improving the quality of vocational undergraduate nursing talent cultivation.

KEYWORDS

Artificial intelligence; vocational undergraduate education; nursing education; generative artificial intelligence; teaching reform

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhang Nan. A Study on the Current Application, Problems, and Optimization Strategies of Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Undergraduate Nursing Education. Adult and Higher Education (2026). Vol. 8, No. 1, 124-130. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aduhe.2026.080116.

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