Nursing Assistants
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.
1,448,910 people do this job in the US. $42,260 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 15%
- 0%
- 85%
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, 10%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 15%. Today's estimate: 15%.
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 . 33 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 11% | 21 min8 min to 42 min | Stays with people | |
| Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 9% | 21 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Turn or reposition bedridden patients.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 4% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Stock or issue medical supplies, such as dressing packs or treatment trays.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 10 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 8 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 4 min2 min to 13 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 13 min4 min to 25 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.
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