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Clinical Nurse Specialists
Direct nursing staff in the provision of patient care in a clinical practice setting, such as a hospital, hospice, clinic, or home. Ensure adherence to established clinical policies, protocols, regulations, and standards.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide specialized direct and indirect care to inpatients and outpatients within a designated specialty, such as obstetrics, neurology, oncology, or neonatal care.Mostly human for now
- 02Collaborate with other health care professionals and service providers to ensure optimal patient care.Mostly human for now
- 03Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in nursing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Develop, implement, or evaluate standards of nursing practice in specialty area, such as pediatrics, acute care, and geriatrics.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Maintain departmental policies, procedures, objectives, or infection control standards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Instruct nursing staff in areas such as the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of disability, illness, management, technology, or resources.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Develop and maintain departmental policies, procedures, objectives, or patient care standards, based on evidence-based practice guidelines or expert opinion.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice or organizational systems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Observe, interview, and assess patients to identify care needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Provide coaching and mentoring to other caregivers to help facilitate their professional growth and development.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
45%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.
- Provide specialized direct and indirect care to inpatients and outpatients within a designated specialty, such as obstetrics, neurology, oncology, or neonatal care.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals and service providers to ensure optimal patient care.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to other caregivers to help facilitate their professional growth and development.