Nurse Practitioners
The short answer
This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 2,491 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.
AI can help with or automate about 93% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.
AI could do much of this on its own
Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Perform routine or annual physical examinations.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Perform primary care procedures such as suturing, splinting, administering immunizations, taking cultures, and debriding wounds.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Jobs you could switch to
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