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Will AI replace Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses?
The core of your work stays human. For you, AI is mainly an amplifier.
Task exposure to today's AI
Low exposure
This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.
Get your personal scoreWill AI replace Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses?
Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 29% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. The parts that stay human include: Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.; Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.; 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..
People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.
Which tasks AI can take on
The largest tasks in this occupation, their share of the working week, and how much of each today's AI tools can do.
+ 16 more tasks (34% of the week) in the full test.
Your human edge
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- 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 tools to try
Clinical documentation and transcription assistantsChatGPT / Claude for patient information (no patient data)Clinical decision support in your systemsRelated roles
- Registered Nurses
- Paramedics
- Nurse Practitioners
A 3-phase AI learning plan
Phase 1
Less documentation time
- AI transcription and note drafting where your organisation allows it.
- Patient information leaflets in plain language.
- Never put identifiable patient data into public tools.
Project
Use AI to draft 10 de-identified shift notes and 3 plain-language leaflets (wound care, new medication, catheter care) and time the before/after documentation minutes.Phase 2
Evidence and decision support
- Guideline and literature summaries with AI, checked in the source.
- Understand how decision-support tools reach their output.
- Know the limits and liability.
Project
Build a one-page AI-drafted summary of current guidelines on pressure ulcer staging and insulin administration, verifying every claim against the original source and logging 5 errors found.Phase 3
AI in care processes
- Coordination, scheduling and handover with AI help.
- Take part in your organisation's AI projects.
- Teach colleagues safe use.
Project
Redesign your unit's shift handover with an AI-generated SBAR template and aide task roster, then run it for two weeks and teach 5 colleagues safe-use rules.