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Acute Care Nurses
Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.Mostly human for now
- 02Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.Mostly human for now
- 04Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.Mostly human for now
- 05Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.Mostly human for now
- 06Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.Mostly human for now
- 08Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss6%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
31%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 39% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 32% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.