Career Explorer Healthcare (clinical)
Grows with AI
Registered nurses
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 67% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is moderate (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by +5.6% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on emotional intelligence and ethical judgement.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $97,550
- Job growth to 2035
- +5.6%
- Openings a year
- 181,000
- People doing it (2025)
- 3.5 million
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Analyze health or medical data
- Develop operational or technical procedures or standards
- Explain medical information to patients or family members
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Monitor health conditions of humans or animals
- Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care
- Maintain health or medical records
What the work looks like
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
- Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
- Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as the type of care delivered in these settings translates into a reduced need for registered nurses, relative to other occupations.
- More of these jobs, as insurance companies increasingly employ registered nurses to manage complex compensation and medical coverage requests.
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Also known as: Charge Nurse, Emergency Department RN (Emergency Department Registered Nurse), Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN), Staff Nurse, Cardiovascular ICU Nurse (Cardiovascular Intense Care Unit Nurse), Cardiovascular Surgery Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (Cardiovascular Surgery ACNP), Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse, PMHNP (Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner).
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.