Will AI Replace Acute Care Nurses?

Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Treat wounds or superficial lacerations.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

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.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Participate in the development of practice protocols.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices, such as temporary pacemakers.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

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.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.