Acute Care Nurses
Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
$97,550 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
- 62%
- 13%
- 24%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 3%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 57%. Today's estimate: 59%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 27 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 17 min8 min to 29 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | 99%Half by now | |
| Participate in the development of practice protocols.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 6% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | 46%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025). Counts are for the broader BLS group this job sits in.
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025). Counts are for the broader BLS group this job sits in.