Expertise First: Reflections on Informal Artificial Intelligence Mentoring in an Asynchronous Nursing Faculty Community

Anna Liza D. Villena PhD, RN, FNP-BC
The integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into higher education has arrived faster than the support structures designed to help faculty navigate it. This article reflects on one faculty member’s experience providing informal AI integration mentoring to nursing colleagues at Walden University, a fully asynchronous online graduate nursing program, where clinician-educators with deep disciplinary expertise often struggled to recognize that expertise as an asset in their interaction