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Critical Care Nurses
Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.Mostly human for now
- 04Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems, such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.Mostly human for now
- 05Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients, based on assessment data or identified needs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Compile and analyze data obtained from monitoring or diagnostic tests.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Conduct pulmonary assessments to identify abnormal respiratory patterns or breathing sounds that indicate problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans, based on identified needs and assessment data.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Document patients' medical histories and assessment findings.People already use AI for this at work
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
35%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 30% 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.
- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems, such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.