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Registered Nurses
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Record patients' medical information and vital signs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.Mostly human for now
- 03Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.Mostly human for now
- 06Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.Mostly human for now
- 08Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.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 loss6%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
33%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 39% 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 30% 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 medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
- Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.