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Nursing Assistants
Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Turn or reposition bedridden patients.Mostly human for now
- 02Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.Mostly human for now
- 03Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.Mostly human for now
- 04Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.Mostly human for now
- 05Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.Mostly human for now
- 06Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.Mostly human for now
- 08Review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.Mostly human for now
- 09Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.Mostly human for now
- 10Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
10%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 4% 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 53% 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.
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
- Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.