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AI-driven, trusted clinical guidance designed for nursing workflows

ClinicalKey for Nursing AI is Elsevier’s bedside ready assistant designed to give your teams quick, evidence-based answers to natural language questions.

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Introducing ClinicalKey for Nursing AI

Your nurses are being asked to do more than ever: care for higher acuity patients, manage rising workloads, and make fast, safe decisions, all while navigating ongoing workforce challenges.

To support them, you need clinical guidance that’s immediate, trustworthy, and built specifically for nurses.

That’s where ClinicalKey for Nursing AI comes in.

ClinicalKey for Nursing AI is Elsevier’s bedside ready assistant designed to give your teams quick, evidence-based answers to natural language questions. Every response is grounded in trusted nursing books, journals, clinical skills and guidelines, with clear citations so you always know the source.

What makes ClinicalKey for Nursing AI different

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Behind the scenes, ClinicalKey for Nursing AI is continuously reviewed and evaluated by clinicians, helping ensure responses remain accurate, evidence-based, and aligned with evolving practices. You get:

  • Reliable, nursing specific answers backed by peer reviewed content

  • Clear source transparency to help build trust with what you’re using

  • Consistent, concise guidance that cuts through information overload

  • Support for clinical judgment, not a replacement for it

Built for real world nursing workflows

ClinicalKey for Nursing AI is designed to fit the way nurses work. You can expect:

  • Fast, actionable insights at the bedside

  • Enterprise grade integrations that plug directly into existing systems

  • Guidance aligned to nursing scope and responsibilities, supporting assessments, interventions, monitoring, and procedural care

The result: Less time searching and more time focused on patient care, with reliable support available at the moment it’s needed.

What ClinicalKey for Nursing AI offers

Fast, nurse-focused answers right when you need them

  • ClinicalKey for Nursing AI is built to give nurses quick, clear answers at the point of care — simply ask a question the way you’d naturally say it.

  • Every response stays within the nursing scope, focusing on assessments, interventions, monitoring, and practical steps you can use right away.

  • Its web-based, mobile-responsive experience means it integrates smoothly into existing ClinicalKey for Nursing workflows.

  Answers grounded in trusted evidence

  • Every answer is backed by Elsevier’s authoritative nursing content, including Clinical Skills, books, journals, and clinical overviews.

  • You’ll see transparent citations in every response, with direct links to full text content, so you can easily verify information or explore a topic more deeply.

  Procedural “how-to” guidance for real-world nursing practice

  • Need to check a procedure? ClinicalKey for Nursing AI can guide you to practical, step-by-step guidance pulled from Clinical Skills.

  • And because it supports natural follow-up questions, you can keep the conversation going — just like thinking through a situation in real time.

  Built for scale across the nursing continuum

  • Strong support for acute care settings like medical-surgical, emergency, and critical care.

  • Built on the same architecture as ClinicalKey AI for physicians, this ensures consistency, regulatory alignment, and PHI/HIPAA ready design.

  Standardization, safety support, and efficiency

  • ClinicalKey for Nursing AI helps reduce unwarranted variation in care by giving teams access to the same evidence-aligned answers. It supports safety and quality initiatives with role-appropriate, fully cited information.

  • Designed to streamline decision making, ClinicalKey for Nursing AI saves clinicians valuable time by quickly delivering clear insights grounded in trusted evidence, right within their workflow—helping teams act faster while enhancing patient care.

Ready to transform your understanding of generative AI in healthcare?

Our upcoming Gen AI Academy will help you:

  • Build a strong foundation in generative AI and its practical nursing applications

  • Learn to write effective prompts that improve the reliability of AI support

  • Learn efficient practices for integrating AI into your daily workflows

  • Discover how tools like ClinicalKey for Nursing AI can help reduce cognitive burden and enhance confidence

  • Understand ethical and safe practice considerations for AI in clinical environments

This program is currently in development. If you’d like to be notified when the Academy launches, simply leave your interest using our event form and we’ll contact you as soon as it goes live.

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