Using GenAI to transform teaching methods and enhance students' learning outcomes in Children and General Nursing students.
Ms Tracey O’Neill and Dr Lisa Kirwan, Assistant Professors, School of Nursing & Midwifery
This teaching and learning innovation focused on integrating generative AI into undergraduate children's nursing education, transforming current teaching methodology and students' learning outcomes for these units of study. Twenty-two Junior Sophister children and general nursing students used AI-generated frameworks to understand renal and endocrine conditions and develop individualised nursing care plans based on realistic clinical scenarios for children with these problems.
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Lisa is an Assistant Professor in Children’s Nursing and PhD candidate at the School of Nursing and Midwifery TCD with a research focus on adolescent mental health.
Lisa has practiced as a Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, bringing a wealth of international experience to her academic work. Lisa recently completed a Special Purpose Certificate in Teaching, Learning & Assessment for Academic Practice at TCD.
Lisa has a growing interest in using generative AI to enhance children’s nursing education, student engagement and clinical preparedness in an evolving healthcare landscape.
Tracey is a Registered Children’s Nurse, a Registered Nurse in Intellectual Disability, and a Registered Nurse Tutor. Tracey’s experiences include research in the fields of child and family health, domestic violence, children’s diabetes, and children’s diabetes technology, with expertise in carrying out research with children, using child-participatory research methods.
Tracey also has extensive supervisory and lecturing experience in the field of children’s nursing, on undergraduate and postgraduate children’s nursing programmes, and engaging in teaching activities using high-fidelity simulation.