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Nurse Practitioner

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
60/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
51/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence86/100
Task coverage96%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.High
73
Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.High
65
Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.High
67
Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.High
64
Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.High
70
Prescribe medication dosages, routes, and frequencies, based on such patient characteristics as age and gender.High
61
Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.High
68
Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).High
66
Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.High
55
Recommend interventions to modify behavior associated with health risks.High
67
Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.High
71
Maintain departmental policies and procedures in areas such as safety and infection control.High
72
Treat or refer patients for primary care conditions, such as headaches, hypertension, urinary tract infections, upper respiratory infections, and dermatological conditions.High
55
Schedule follow-up visits to monitor patients or evaluate health or illness care.High
57
Counsel patients about drug regimens and possible side effects or interactions with other substances, such as food supplements, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, or herbal remedies.High
48
Perform primary care procedures such as suturing, splinting, administering immunizations, taking cultures, and debriding wounds.High
68
Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in nursing.High
67
Consult with, or refer patients to, appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.High
55
Diagnose or treat acute health care problems, such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.High
37
Supervise or coordinate patient care or support staff activities.Medium
58
Maintain current knowledge of state legal regulations for nurse practitioner practice, including reimbursement of services.High
68
Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances.High
35
Provide patients or caregivers with assistance in locating health care resources.Medium
50
Advocate for accessible health care that minimizes environmental health risks.High
51
Keep abreast of regulatory processes and payer systems, such as Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and private sources.Medium
66
Detect and respond to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, or older adults.High
29
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.73
  2. Maintain departmental policies and procedures in areas such as safety and infection control.72
  3. Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.71
  4. Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.70
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Detect and respond to adverse drug reactions, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as infants, children, pregnant and lactating women, or older adults.01
  2. Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.02
  3. Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.03
  4. Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).04
  5. Recommend interventions to modify behavior associated with health risks.05
Where else this work leads

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency67
Physical dependency41
Adoption pressure61
Labour-market resilience73
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence86/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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