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Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Evaluate and grade students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.Mostly human for now
- 03Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Mostly human for now
- 04Assess clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health care practices.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.Mostly human for now
- 09Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.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 loss19%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
40%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 87% 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.
- Supervise students' laboratory and clinical work.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Demonstrate patient care in clinical units of hospitals.