AI Under the Hood (BSU and AI basics)
These are not "source-truthed" databases, but probability-driven statistical models that predict the next likely token.
What are Large Language Models (LLMs)?
This concept reminds nurses that even if the AI suggests a treatment, the human nurse must remain the final authority and decision-maker.
What is being Human-Centered?
This model uses layers to illustrate how errors occur when multiple system defenses fail simultaneously
What is the Swiss Cheese Model?
This acronym refers to any health data that can be used to identify a patient and is protected under HIPAA.
What is PHI (Protected Health Information)?
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Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
This specific tool allows BSU students to upload their own PDFs (like the syllabus or clinical notes) to "ground" the AI's answers in specific facts.
What is NotebookLM?
The choice to use AI as a "tutor" to understand a concept rather than using it to simply "short-circuit" an assignment or clinical report.
What is maintaining Integrity?
According to AHRQ, this fraction of hospital admissions involves a medical error
What is 1 in 3?
The full name behind the acronym HIPAA, this 1996 federal law established national standards for protecting health information.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
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Who is Beyoncé?
This term describes the danger of letting an AI perform a complex mental task for you, which can lead to a loss of critical thinking and personal responsibility for the final result.
What is Cognitive Offloading?
The specific type of patient data that must never be entered into a public or non-enterprise AI tool.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
This recurring human factors problem occurs when clinicians become desensitized to frequent alerts and begin ignoring them, even when some are clinically significant
What is alarm fatigue?
This HIPAA principle states that clinicians should only access the patient information necessary to do their specific job.
What is the Minimum Necessary Rule?
This is the only planet in our solar system that rotates on its side, essentially rolling around the sun like a bowling ball.
What is Uranus?
When using AI at Boise State, you should use the "Enterprise" versions of these two main platforms to ensure your data isn't used for training.
What are Boisestate.AI and Gemini?
This upcoming AI tool is being developed to act as an "always-on" virtual assistant for patients in their hospital rooms.
Who is Emmie?
This design strategy makes the wrong action physically difficult or impossible, such as using non-compatible connectors for IV and enteral tubing.
What is a forcing function?
This HIPAA rule, enacted in 2003, governs how health information can be used and shared, and when written patient authorization is required.
What is the right to know who has seen their data?
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What is a flamboyance?
When an AI provides a "correct-sounding" but entirely fabricated piece of information or medical citation.
What is a Hallucination (or Confabulation)?
The reality that most "free" AI tools treat the text you type into them as data to help train their next version.
What is Data Training (or Privacy Risk)?
This aspect of organizational culture refers to how safe staff feel when reporting concerns, and whether they trust leadership will respond constructively.
What is safety culture?
These three reasons — patient autonomy, trust in healthcare relationships, and preventing discrimination — fall under this category of why nurses should care about privacy and security
What are ethical reasons?
The human body contains enough of this element to make roughly 900 pencils.
What is carbon?