Nursing Assistants
Healthcare Support Occupations- O*NET-SOC code
- 31-1131.00
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.
AI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: 2026-08
Low· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-level value
Scale, basis and source
Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)
831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: 2026-03
0.000
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
Observed exposure index, 0–1 as published
Mapped onto O*NET tasks
Published per SOC 2018 occupation; every O*NET occupation with the same SOC 2018 code carries this value
- Data source: ILOPublished: 2025
0.14
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
Published per ISCO-08 unit group. Linked to this occupation, wholly or in part, by applying U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics crosswalks (ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC, 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC) as published
What kind of figure this source publishes
The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.
AI exposure (OpenAI rubric)
33 rated tasks · 5 tasks with β ≥ 0.5 (15.2%)
β = direct exposure (E1) + 0.5 × exposure when tools are available (E2), per the source repository's definition.
- Source unit: O*NET 27.2 tasks → O*NET 31.0 occupation code
- All rated tasks are in the O*NET 31.0 task list.
- Source
- OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" exposure rubric
- Release
- gh-main-0471612
- License
- MIT License, Copyright (c) 2024 OpenAI
Tasks
Task statements from the O*NET® 31.0 Database, core tasks first.
| Task | Type | β (OpenAI) |
|---|---|---|
| Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs. | Core | 0 |
| Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care. | Core | 0 |
| Change bed linens or make beds. | Core | 0 |
| Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas. | Core | 0 |
| Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum. | Core | 0 |
| Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support. | Core | 0 |
| Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses. | Core | 1 |
| Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink. | Core | 0 |
| Gather information from caregivers, nurses, or physicians about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities. | Core | 0 |
| Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff. | Core | 0 |
| Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine. | Core | 0.5 |
| Prepare or serve food trays. | Core | 0 |
| 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. | Core | 0 |
| Record height or weight of patients. | Core | 0.5 |
| Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff. | Core | 0 |
| Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements. | Core | 0 |
| Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels, washcloths, soap, or toilet paper. | Core | 0 |
| Review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet. | Core | 0 |
| Supply, collect, or empty bedpans. | Core | 0 |
| Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds. | Core | 0 |
| Turn or reposition bedridden patients. | Core | 0 |
| Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves. | Core | 0 |
| Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination. | Core | 0 |
| Exercise patients who are comatose, paralyzed, or have restricted mobility. | Core | 0 |
| Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers. | Core | 0 |
| Provide information, such as directions, visiting hours, or patient status information to visitors or callers. | Core | 0.5 |
| Administer medications or treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, or douches, as directed by a physician or nurse. | Supplemental | 0 |
| Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician. | Supplemental | 0 |
| Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation. | Supplemental | 0 |
| Set up treating or testing equipment, such as oxygen tents, portable radiograph (x-ray) equipment, or overhead irrigation bottles, as directed by a physician or nurse. | Supplemental | 0 |
| Stock or issue medical supplies, such as dressing packs or treatment trays. | Supplemental | 0 |
| Explain medical instructions to patients or family members. | Supplemental | 1 |
| Transport specimens, laboratory items, or pharmacy items, ensuring proper documentation and delivery to authorized personnel. | Supplemental | 0 |
Occupation information
Sources and attribution
This page includes information from the O*NET® 31.0 Database (https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html) by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. AI Changing Work has modified all or some of this information: the O*NET-SOC code, title and task statements are reproduced in English without change; task-type labels are shown in the page's language and tasks are listed core first; any Korean occupation title shown on the Korean-language page is AI Changing Work's translation; any KSCO-8 unit groups linked to this occupation were paired with it by AI Changing Work's judgment, and the relation labels and statuses are AI Changing Work's additions. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Any AI exposure figures on this page are published by third parties, not by AI Changing Work, and none is part of the O*NET information. OpenAI publishes task-level scores (MIT License) for O*NET 27.2 task statements; each is shown next to the O*NET 31.0 task statement with the same task ID, whose wording can differ from the 27.2 statement that was scored. OpenAI also publishes occupation-level scores for O*NET-SOC codes in the same release, and any such score is shown on the O*NET occupation with the same code. Anthropic publishes an observed exposure index in the Anthropic Economic Index (CC-BY), and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes relative AI exposure categories (public domain); both are published per SOC code, and each value is shown on every O*NET occupation with that code. The International Labour Organization publishes a generative AI exposure index in ILO Working Paper 140 (CC BY 4.0) for ISCO-08 unit groups; AI Changing Work links those groups to O*NET occupations by applying the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC and 2010 SOC to 2018 SOC crosswalks as published, without case-by-case selection, and these crosswalks match many groups only in part. Where several unit groups are linked, each group's published value is listed, and any summary shows only the lowest and highest of those values with the number of groups; no exposure figure is averaged or recalculated. Any employment figures are published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the SOC group containing this occupation. Each source is credited where its figures are shown.
O*NET OnLine: 31-1131.00 Nursing Assistants
KSCO 코드·명칭: 한국표준직업분류(제8차 개정) — 통계청 고시 제2024-328호 (2024-07-01 고시, 2025-01-01 시행). 저작권법 제7조 제2호의 고시 항목이다. 명칭 표기(가운뎃점·띄어쓰기)는 해설서 2차 정오 반영판의 표기를 따랐으며, 고시 항목표와는 18개 명칭에서 가운뎃점 글리프나 띄어쓰기만 다르다. 통계청은 2025년 10월 국가데이터처로 개편되었다. 이 페이지의 KSCO 연결은 통계청·국가데이터처의 공식 연계표가 아니다.