This bill regulates AI use by registered nurses in Illinois, amending discipline grounds for AI provision violations and is effective immediately.
If you employ registered nurses using AI in patient care, you must maintain validation records and provide training or face regulatory scrutiny.
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SB3702 introduces significant regulations for AI use in nursing practice in Illinois. It allows AI as clinical decision support under nurse control, prohibits AI from solely making staffing, triage, admission, discharge, or transfer decisions, requires access to AI data inputs and key factors, mandates training on intended use, data limits, and known failure modes, requires patient notice and transparency, includes confidentiality protections for patient data, and requires healthcare entities to provide records to the Department upon request. The bill also amends the grounds for discipline specifically for AI provision violations by registered professional nurses and allows the Department to investigate healthcare entities. The bill is effective immediately.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits AI from substituting for nursing services or making staffing, triage, admission, discharge, or transfer decisions solely.
- Allows AI as clinical decision support under the control of a registered professional nurse.
- Requires registered nurses to have access to data inputs and key factors that produced any recommendation used in direct patient care.
- Mandates training for nurses on AI use, intended use, data limits, and known failure modes.
- Requires healthcare entities to maintain and provide AI validation and bias monitoring records to the Department upon request.
- Requires patient notice and transparency regarding AI use.
- Includes confidentiality protections for patient data.
- Allows the Department to investigate any healthcare entity employing registered nurses for AI provision violations.
- Establishes disciplinary actions for non-compliance by nurses, including violations of AI provisions.
- Includes an exception for nonclinical activity in the use of AI.
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Bill Sponsors
| Name | Role | District |
|---|---|---|
| Graciela Guzman D | Sponsor | SD-020 |
Compliance Checklist
Who: Registered professional nurses.
Penalty: Disciplinary action against the nurse.
Who: Healthcare entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Records must be available to the Department upon request.
Who: Healthcare entities employing registered nurses.
Penalty: Potential regulatory scrutiny.
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