Special Edition

Call for Submissions

The words "Call for submissions" and the title of the QANE-AFI special edition, on the relationship between AI and knowledge in nursing education, appear on a translucent teal background. The submission deadline, March 30, 2026, appears below the title. The French translation of the text sits to the right of the English.

Guest Co-Editors for the Special Edition:

Dr. Clémence Dallaire, inf. Ph. D.

Dr. Manal Kleib, PhD, FCAN, RN

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière is issuing a call for submissions for the upcoming special edition on the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge in nursing education.

As we navigate this transitional time in human history, it behooves us to question and imagine how the future of nursing education and nursing education scholarship might look with AI integration—or the lack thereof. AI can have many different definitions, types, and classifications. For example, according to UNESCO, “AI allows machines to mimic human intelligence such as perception, problem solving, linguistic interaction or creativity.” AI technologies bring about both opportunities and challenges, particularly in their implications for nursing knowledge development and the quality of nursing education. Knowledge, too, has different meanings, such as that which is apprehended with the mind, is systematically organized for different purposes, and can be acquired through education. Nursing education programs offer specific knowledge of the nursing domain.

This special edition focuses on the relationship between AI and knowledge in nursing education practice, scholarship, and policy. By examining practical and philosophical questions and implications surrounding this relationship, this edition seeks to foster scholarly discourse and inform pedagogical practices and policies that aim to ensure the ethical and responsible application of these technologies.

We invite submissions regarding but not limited to the following topics on the relationship between AI and knowledge:

  • How might it inform nurse educators in designing learning experiences that best prepare future nurses’ clinical reasoning abilities?
  • How might it guide academic leadership in proposing a vision and a strategic direction for responsible and ethical integration of AI into nursing education and research?
  • How might it guide nurse educators to champion AI as a tool to augment nursing education while also sustaining the essence of a compassionate, equitable, inclusive, and learner-centred approach to pedagogy?
  • How might it inform the ethical use of AI in nursing education and academic research/scholarship?
  • How might it inform pedagogical theory and approaches for assessment of learning in nursing education?
  • How might it foster dialogue about the potential negative and positive consequences of AI on the broader health care environment and academic organizational effectiveness and sustainability?
  • How might it promote or hinder the value of diverse forms of knowledge?

Submission deadline: March 30, 2026

Publication: September 2026

To submit an article, please visit Submissions.

Please contact Jessica Pearce Lamothe (jpearce@casn.ca) for further details.