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Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.Mostly human for now
- 04Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.Mostly human for now
- 05Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.Mostly human for now
- 07Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.Mostly human for now
- 09Record food and fluid intake and output.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
25%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 6% 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 49% 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 prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.