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Clinical Nurse Specialists

Direct nursing staff in the provision of patient care in a clinical practice setting, such as a hospital, hospice, clinic, or home. Ensure adherence to established clinical policies, protocols, regulations, and standards.

69 AI exposure
40 Human advantage
69 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Clinical Nurse Specialists a safe career from AI?

Clinical Nurse Specialists 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 40. 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 Clinical Nurse Specialists 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 Clinical Nurse Specialists can go next

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

Nurse Practitioners 95% of the skills carry over $129k median
Physician Assistants 94% of the skills carry over $133k median
Nurse Anesthetists 88% of the skills carry over $223k median
Dentists, General 87% of the skills carry over $173k 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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