ChatGPT in nursing education: opportunities and challenges.

• Using ChatGPT in education may reduce students' thinking abilities, and those who rely too much on technology may tend to abuse the technology. • As suggested by some educators, "Don't Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It," but this involves requiring students be educated against the malicious use of ChatGPT but ensure that they are taught to distinguish between fact and fiction and the consequences that could come with the use of ChatGPT. • Nurse educators may need to create more personalized and engaging learning experiences for students while streamlining administrative tasks and improving the quality of student feedback. • Nurse educators must be forward-thinkers and educate students to embrace AI and ChatGPT to optimize their potential and the cautions needed in using this technology. Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT), trained on big data, has the potential to be an excellent starting point resource for nursing students to expand their knowledge of basic information. This contemporary paper provides the responses given by ChatGPT for the authors' prompt on nursing education, teaching, and learning. The authors explored the challenges and opportunities of using ChatGPT in nursing education with four key prompts given to ChatGPT related to teaching and learning. The response from ChatGPT was supported by evidence of benefits and risks to nursing education and practice. Although ChatGPT is considered controversial, given the changing landscape, rather than banning ChatGPT, educators could adopt ChatGPT as a learning assistant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]