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Will AI replace Nurse Midwives?

The core of your work stays human. For you, AI is mainly an amplifier.

Task exposure to today's AI

29/100

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.

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Will AI replace Nurse Midwives?

Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 29% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information. The parts that stay human include: Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.; Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.; Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight..

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.

TaskAutomatable
Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information. 57%
Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care. 30%
Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women. 12%
Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients. 10%
Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations. 10%
Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight. 10%

+ 15 more tasks (40% of the week) in the full test.

Your human edge

  • Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
  • Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
  • Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.

AI tools to try

Clinical documentation and transcription assistantsChatGPT / Claude for patient information (no patient data)Clinical decision support in your systems

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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 rewrite 10 of your prenatal, postpartum and newborn-care leaflets into plain language at reading level B1, and draft de-identified visit note templates; log minutes saved per visit over two weeks.

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 an AI-assisted summary of current guidelines on three clinical questions you face weekly (e.g. GBS, prolonged rupture, breech), verify every claim against the source and record error rates.

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

Design an AI-supported handover and shift-scheduling template for your midwifery team, pilot it for two weeks, then teach a 60-minute session on safe AI use and data rules to colleagues.
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