Creighton students create chatbot to help others with a notoriously hard class

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A group of Creighton University computer science students is building an artificial intelligence chatbot to help graduate nursing students to get through one of their toughest courses.

Students on the nurse practitioner track at Creighton University must take advanced pharmacology.

“Whether you’re going to be taking care of the tiniest of babies or the oldest individuals, and the very sick in the hospital setting, we know that it is so important to have good management skills. In order to do that, you need to know these medications,” said Lindsay Iverson, DNP, associate professor in the College of Nursing at Creighton University.

Iverson has taught the course for ten years and said it’s notoriously challenging. Graduate nurse practitioner student, Anne Taylor, took