As technologies continue to revolutionise health care, the nursing industry must examine how effectively we utilise technology to prepare nurses to thrive and lead. The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) has yielded technologies that have and will continue to revolutionise health care through the use of digital transformative technologies characterised by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), the cloud, big data and mobile data access. The questions that now arises, in the fifth revolution, where we will see a broader integration of AI into health care, will nurses be prepared to navigate this new environment? | HE ALTH C ARE ADVAN CEMENTSToday, the global healthcare ecosystem begs for new processes, models, systems and products that achieve the quadruple aim to better manage not only the populations but to lower cost, and improve patient and clinician experience (Hefner et al., 2021). Industry 4.0 is challenging