Leveraging Artificial Intelligence: Leadership Challenges and Opportunities for Nurse Managers in the Digital Age in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Many challenges are faced by Saudi nurse managers in integrating AI with the current healthcare systems. The benefits and challenges are obvious, as many published papers indicate. The need for a review of the status of the leadership challenges and opportunities in leveraging AI for Saudi nurse managers was attempted by this review. A targeted 25 papers were selected from Google Scholar and the results were described and discussed. It can be concluded from this review that in leveraging AI in healthcare, nursing leadership face many challenges globally. The problem is especially more concerning in the case of Saudi Arabia due to its religious and social peculiarities. Very few Saudi women enter nursing jobs due to these factors. Therefore, nurse managers also will be very few. These factors reduce the scope for nurse managers facing challenges in leveraging AI for better healthcare outcomes. Although this situation is fast changing, the goal of replacing foreign nurses with Saudi nurses is still to be achieved. The future holds scope for leveraging AI largely by nurses under the guidance of nurse managers for significant healthcare outcomes in Saudi Arabia. Some limitations and scope for future research have been mentioned.