AI Delegation Index

AI Delegation Index

What work could you hand off to an AI agent?

Nursing Assistants

Low

AI agents have a narrow supporting role here, mainly helping with preparation or documentation rather than doing the physical work.

Where agents can help most

  1. 1

    Log call-light requests and notify staff

    Use an agent to turn call-light notes, shift handoff details, and the patient’s stated need into a short work list with the right response and handoff note.

  2. 2

    Prepare service and care notes

    Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear service and care record.

  3. 3

    Organize shift notes and follow-up items

    Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear shift summary.

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O*NET-SOC 31-1131.00 · #763 of 923

Result context

How to read this result

Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

National position
#763 of 923 occupations
Top 83% of occupations
Overall AI delegation potential
Low
Potential of score-contributing workflows
Low · 48/100
Meaningful work covered
13%

The overall rating combines how useful the best agent workflows are with how much of the occupation they address. It is not an estimate of job automation or replacement.

Recommended agent uses

3 workflows you could delegate to AI

1

Log call-light requests and notify staff

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn call-light notes, shift handoff details, and the patient’s stated need into a short work list with the right response and handoff note. It can sort routine requests like water, toileting, repositioning, or help walking, and draft a quick report for the nurse when the request sounds like pain, distress, or a change in condition.

Where you stay involved

You check the request, decide whether it is something you can safely do, provide the hands-on help, and tell the nurse when something sounds off or beyond your scope.

Review level: High

2

Prepare service and care notes

Documentation support · not included in the score

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear service and care record. It can organize the entries, check required fields, and flag gaps before you submit or store the record.

Where you stay involved

You perform the hands-on or in-person work, confirm that the source details are accurate, and approve the final record before it is used.

Review level: Medium

3

Organize shift notes and follow-up items

Documentation support · not included in the score

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear shift summary. It can organize the entries, check required fields, and flag gaps before you submit or store the record.

Where you stay involved

You perform the hands-on or in-person work, confirm that the source details are accurate, and approve the final record before it is used.

Review level: Medium

Supporting analysis

Why this occupation's AI delegation potential is Low

Underlying methodology score

40 / 100

This technical score determines the qualitative rating; it is not an estimate of the share of the occupation that can be automated.

Importance & frequency90
AI capability67
Digital actionability30
End-to-end leverage22
Safety & reversibility32
Meaningful-work coverage
13%
Physical-work modifier
Material
Safety modifier
Material
Qualitative judgment
No material constraint
O*NET task evidence
33 tasks

O*NET 31.0 · methodology 3.3.0. Every workflow passes an action-level physical-execution and protected human-and-veterinary clinical-action gate. Documentation workflows must own a complete digital loop and use digital task evidence only; support-only workflows are disclosed separately and excluded from scoring. Artistic, editorial, normative, and policy-dependent work receives a transparent human-judgment constraint. National ranking within 923 scored O*NET occupations under methodology 3.3.0.

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