Students who do not receive AI-supported orientation training.

Students receiving AI-supported orientation training

The program was implemented via a researcher-developed website featuring seven modules: Therapeutic Communication, Patient Safety, Medical Equipment, Infection Control, Care Plans, Ethics/Privacy, and Stress Management. AI was utilized to develop scenarios, create audiovisual materials, and simulate realistic clinical environments. Each 5-minute video used no real patient data. A sequential progression was enforced, requiring completion of one module to start the next. Knowledge was assessed after each module via 5-10 Kahoot questions. A gamified approach was used where the fastest, most accurate students earned digital badges, with the top three overall being recognized as winners. Content validity was ensured through expert opinions from pediatric nursing faculty, and necessary adjustments were made based on their feedback.

The form was developed by the researchers in line with the relevant literature. The form consists of 3 sections and 8 questions: descriptive characteristics (age, gender, grade point average), information related to clinical adaptation (difficulty in adapting when first starting the clinical environment, difficulty in communicating with patients/families during clinical practice, and experiencing anxiety-stress before clinical practice), and information related to artificial intelligence (use of artificial intelligence programs and willingness to learn and use technological developments such as artificial intelligence).

The scale was to comprehensively evaluate the clinical adaptation of student nurses in clinical practice. It was adapted into Turkish. The scale has three subdimensions: Professional Development and Interpersonal Interaction, Clinical Competence and Confidence, and Coping and Support Strategies. It consists of 15 items in a 5-point Likert-type format. The total score ranges from 15 to 75. A higher score indicates better clinical adaptation. The scale does not have a defined cut-off point or reverse-coded items. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the scale is 0.91.

The scale was to determine the therapeutic communication skills of nursing students. It has three subdimensions: Non-therapeutic Communication Skills, Therapeutic Communication Skills 1, and Therapeutic Communication Skills 2. The scale consists of 16 items in a 7-point Likert-type format (1 = Never, 4 = Sometimes, 7 = Always). There are no reverse-coded items in the scale. The maximum possible score is 168, and the minimum possible score is 24. The Cronbach's alpha value of the "Therapeutic Communication Skills Scale for Nursing Students" is 0.775.