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Nurse Midwives
Diagnose and coordinate all aspects of the birthing process, either independently or as part of a healthcare team. May provide well-woman gynecological care. Must have specialized, graduate nursing education.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.Mostly human for now
- 02Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.Mostly human for now
- 03Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.Mostly human for now
- 05Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.Mostly human for now
- 10Document findings of physical examinations.AI could speed this up a lot
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 loss5%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
39%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 41% 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 prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
- Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
- Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.