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Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Assess, diagnose, and treat individuals and families with mental health or substance use disorders or the potential for such disorders. Apply therapeutic activities, including the prescription of medication, per state regulations, and the administration of psychotherapy.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Assess patients' mental and physical status, based on the presenting symptoms and complaints.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Diagnose psychiatric disorders and mental health conditions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Document patients' medical and psychological histories, physical assessment results, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescriptions, or outcomes.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Educate patients and family members about mental health and medical conditions, preventive health measures, medications, or treatment plans.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Write prescriptions for psychotropic medications as allowed by state regulations and collaborative practice agreements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Monitor patients' medication usage and results.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Evaluate patients' behavior to formulate diagnoses or assess treatments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Distinguish between physiologically- and psychologically-based disorders, and diagnose appropriately.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Develop and implement treatment plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Conduct individual, group, or family psychotherapy for those with chronic or acute mental disorders.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
47%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
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.
- Conduct individual, group, or family psychotherapy for those with chronic or acute mental disorders.