Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
The short answer
This job is less likely to change much. Most of the work is the kind AI can't help with. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 4,407 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second least exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. Most of what it involves isn't the kind of work AI can take over.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a quarter of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second least 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
This job is in the second least exposed fifth of New York jobs for AI exposure. The tasks below show why: most of what it involves is work AI can't simply take over.
AI can help with or automate about 41% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Record food and fluid intake and output.
AI could do much of this on its own
Tasks AI can't do much of
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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