Leading Responsible AI: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Frameworks for Nurse Leaders
Webinar Details
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare delivery, clinical decision-making, documentation, education, and operations. Designed for the Jonas Alumni Network, this session examines the ethical, legal, and policy frameworks needed to guide responsible AI adoption. Participants will explore governance structures, patient privacy, algorithmic bias, transparency, human oversight, vendor accountability, and continuous monitoring. Through a practical healthcare scenario, attendees will consider how nurse leaders can translate national guidance into organizational policies and safeguards that protect patients, support clinicians, advance health equity, and build trust.
Webinar Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Examine key ethical, legal, regulatory, and policy considerations influencing AI use in healthcare and nursing practice.
- Apply national frameworks and professional guidance to evaluate AI risks related to patient safety, privacy, equity, transparency, and accountability.
- Identify nurse-led governance strategies that preserve clinical judgment, strengthen human oversight, and support responsible AI implementation.
- Describe how nurse leaders can influence organizational policy and lead AI-enabled practice transformation.
This webinar is hosted by Jonas Nursing.
Speakers
Stephanie H. Hoelscher, DNP, RN, NI-BC, AIMP, CPHIMS, CHISP, FHIMSS
Professor of Graduate Informatics and MSN Informatics Program Director
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Dr. Steph Hoelscher is Professor of Graduate Informatics and MSN Informatics Program Director at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. With nearly 30 years of experience across nursing and informatics, her work focuses on safely advancing AI, digital health, and intelligent systems to support clinician learning, decision-making, and safer patient care. She is the creator of the N.U.R.S.E.S. AI Literacy Framework, a practical and ethical approach to integrating AI into nursing practice and education, and serves as the inaugural chair of her institution’s AI Governance Council, leading efforts in AI education, research, practice, and responsible innovation. An ANCC board-certified informaticist and HIMSS Fellow, Dr. Hoelscher leads initiatives in AI readiness, EHR optimization, workflow redesign, and clinician burden reduction. Her scholarship spans AI literacy, ethics, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies in healthcare, and includes ongoing research to develop and evaluate tools that assess AI literacy, confidence, and ethical readiness across the nursing workforce. She serves as an AI advisor for EBSCO, is a past co-chair of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Education & Networking Task Force, and a member of the new AMIA AI Task Force. Her work centers on ensuring technology enhances—rather than replaces—clinical judgment and compassionate care.
Katherine Taylor Pearson, DNP, RN, NI-BC, CLSSBB, CDH-E, CPBI, CPHIMS, CKM
President
American Nursing Informatics Association
Dr. Katherine Taylor Pearson is a nationally recognized nurse informaticist, educator, consultant, and healthcare technology leader with more than 35 years of nursing, military, and healthcare leadership experience. She currently serves as President of the American Nursing Informatics Association and as an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing. Dr. Taylor Pearson is a board-certified informatics nurse with expertise in clinical workflow redesign, artificial intelligence integration, cybersecurity, project management, Lean Six Sigma, data analytics, and digital health transformation. She has extensive experience advancing cybersecurity awareness for nurses and healthcare leaders, emphasizing patient safety, privacy, operational resilience, and the critical role of nursing in protecting digital health environments. She is also the creator of the Five Pillars of Nursing Informatics Collaboration, a framework that highlights the importance of academic-practice partnerships, professional organizations, healthcare systems, industry collaboration, and policy engagement in strengthening the nursing informatics workforce. A retired Army nurse and veteran leader, Dr. Taylor Pearson brings a unique perspective shaped by military service, healthcare operations, academic leadership, and national professional service. Her work focuses on preparing nurses to lead in technology-enabled healthcare environments while keeping patients, clinicians, safety, ethics, equity, and collaboration at the center of digital transformation.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to all.
Continuing Education Credits
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.