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Healthcare · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
59/100
Moderate

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

Replacement Risk
50/100
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
Confidence81/100
Task coverage82%

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
Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.High
68
Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.High
66
Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.High
65
Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.High
70
Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.High
52
Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.High
64
Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.High
60
Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.High
67
Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.High
62
Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.High
66
Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.High
65
Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.High
72
Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.High
68
Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.High
40
Work with individuals, groups, or families to plan or implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.High
67
Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.High
40
Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.High
57
Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.Medium
65
Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.High
40
Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues or concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.Medium
68
Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.Medium
50
Provide or arrange for training or instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.High
52
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

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

  1. Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.72
  2. Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.70
  3. Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.68
  4. Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.68
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. Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.01
  2. Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.02
  3. Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.03
  4. Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.04
  5. Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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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 dependency64
Physical dependency50
Adoption pressure64
Labour-market resilience72
Methodology & sources

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

Confidence81/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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