Will AI Replace Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses?

Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

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

Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.

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

Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.

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

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.

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

Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

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

Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

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

Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.

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

Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

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

Record food and fluid intake and output.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.

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

Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.

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

Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.

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

Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.

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

Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.

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

Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.

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

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.

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

Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.

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

Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.

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

Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

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

Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.

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

Clean rooms and make beds.

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

Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.

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