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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.

69 AI exposure
52 Human advantage
69 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Acute Care Nurses a safe career from AI?

Acute Care Nurses scores 69 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 52. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 69 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.6% over ten years.

What Acute Care Nurses pay

The median wage is $93,600 a year. The lower quarter earns under $78,610 and the upper quarter over $107,960. About 3,282,010 people do this work in the United States.

Where Acute Care Nurses can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Nurse Anesthetists 93% of the skills carry over $223k median
Nurse Practitioners 93% of the skills carry over $129k median
Dentists, General 90% of the skills carry over $173k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 85% of the skills carry over $94k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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