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How exposed to AI is a Acute Care Nurse?

Of the 27 tasks O*NET lists for acute care nurses, 4 could be done in half the time with a chat window today. 13 cannot be sped up at all. Here is which.

Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It does not mean the task stops needing a person. How to read this

Also called
Acute Care NurseCardiac Interventional Care NurseCardiovascular ICU Nurse (Cardiovascular Intense Care Unit Nurse)Cardiovascular Surgery Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (Cardiovascular Surgery ACNP)Charge NurseDSU Nurse (Day Surgery Unit Nurse)MSN (Medical Surgical Nurse)PCU RN (Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse)Staff NurseVascular Access Registered Nurse (Vascular Access RN)
Reachable today Needs software built first Cannot be sped up
27
tasks rated for this occupation
81%
hold a degree, from a survey of 21
3048k
people do this job in the US
33 of 89
least protected in healthcare practitioners

Every task, and what AI can do with it

These are O*NET's task statements for this occupation, exactly as written, sorted into the three bands by the ratings behind this report. Nothing has been reworded.

Reachable with a chat window today

4
  • Assess the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships
  • Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments
  • Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions
  • Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities

Only with software built on top

10
  • Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes
  • Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data
  • Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays)
  • Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals
  • Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members
  • Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers
  • Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients
  • Provide formal and informal education to other staff members
  • Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care
  • Participate in the development of practice protocols

Cannot be sped up

13
  • Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions
  • Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly
  • Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability
  • Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions
  • Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work
  • Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines
  • Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness
  • Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments
  • Treat wounds or superficial lacerations
  • Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences
  • Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices, such as temporary pacemakers
  • Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed
  • Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients
What this does not say

This is not a prediction about your job

Nobody surveyed an employer. Tasks are counted equally, so a percentage here is a share of the list rather than a share of your week. And the ratings were made in 2023, which makes every figure a floor rather than a ceiling.

It must never be used to select anyone for redundancy. The full limits are here.

Where to go next

This is the standard task list for the title. The useful next question is which of the tasks you actually do should go near AI, and which should not.

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Exposure ratings from Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs, Science 384, 1306–1308, 2024, used under the MIT licence. This page includes information from the O*NET Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. People Team AI has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Employment figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.