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Psychiatric Aides

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 hold steady over the next decade, with about 846 openings expected each year.

Step 1

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

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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.

Step 2

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 18% of the tasks in this job.

Tasks AI can help with or automate

  1. Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  2. Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.

    AI could do much of this on its own

  3. Interview patients upon admission and record information.

    AI could do much of this on its own

Tasks AI can't do much of

  1. Listen and provide emotional support and encouragement to psychiatric patients.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  2. Provide patients with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  3. Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  4. Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  5. Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

Step 3

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