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Nurse Practitioners
Diagnose and treat acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team. May focus on health promotion and disease prevention. May order, perform, or interpret diagnostic tests such as lab work and x rays. May prescribe medication. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prescribe medication dosages, routes, and frequencies, based on such patient characteristics as age and gender.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Detect and respond to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, or older adults.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
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 loss9%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
48%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 47% 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
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.