Ambient AI for Reducing Nursing Staff Documentation Time

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Nursing Documentation Burden

Treatments: Other: Artificial Intelligence

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07456241

UWMSN | Nursing | Admin (Other Identifier)

2026-0311

Protocol Version 5/15/26 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether using Ambient Artificial Intelligence for nursing staff documentation in an inpatient setting will reduce the time spent in flowsheet documentation and enhance nurse staffing wellbeing.

Participants will use Ambient Listening AI software to draft documentation in discrete fields.

Full description

This pragmatic trial is being conducted to test the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Driven Ambient Listening software on reducing time in flowsheet documentation among Registered Nurses (RNs) and nursing assistants (NAs) in an inpatient setting. The Ambient AI software uses Automated Speech Recognition technology with Large Language Models to automatically generate discrete flowsheet values from nurse-patient conversations in real-time. The clinical trial is an examination of the impact and usability of this implementation on the workload and well-being of nurses involved in the rollout of the software pragmatic Electronic Health Record embedded design integrated into clinical workflows and the health system IT infrastructure.

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Willingness to engage and use ambient technology
• English speaking
• All Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants with the study inpatient units
• Attest to completing all required training

Exclusion criteria

• Planned leave more than 6 weeks during study timeframe

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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250 participants in 3 patient groups

Ambient Listening Group 1

Experimental group

Description:

The hospital unit will be randomized and all nursing staff within the unit will have access to start using Ambient AI at week 8.

Treatment:

Other: Artificial Intelligence

Ambient Listening Group 2

Experimental group

Description:

The hospital unit will be randomized and all nursing staff within the unit will have access to start using Ambient AI at week 11.

Treatment:

Other: Artificial Intelligence

Ambient Listening Group 3

Experimental group

Description:

The hospital unit will be randomized and all nursing staff within the unit will have access to start using Ambient AI at week 14.

Treatment:

Other: Artificial Intelligence