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Will AI replace Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses?

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Baseline AI displacement risk for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses, aggregated from 10 research sources.

What this score means

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses is among the least exposed roles in Healthcare. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 13 out of 100 it scores 9 points below the Healthcare average of 22. Across the 10 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 5 to 25, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.

The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works

What this job actually involves

Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses, most central first, showing 12 of 22.

  • 01Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • 02Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
  • 03Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
  • 04Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
  • 05Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
  • 06Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
  • 07Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
  • 08Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
  • 09Record food and fluid intake and output.
  • 10Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
  • 11Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
  • 12Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.

Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 10 research sources that scored Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

Common questions

How likely is AI to replace Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses?
Published research puts Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses at 13 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the lower risk band. The number is a weighted consensus of 10 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
Do researchers agree on the risk for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses?
Only partly. Individual estimates for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses run from 5 to 25 out of 100 across the 10 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
Which healthcare roles face similar AI exposure?
The closest published healthcare roles to Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses by score are Anesthesiologist Assistants (13/100), Nurse Anesthetists (13/100), and Phlebotomists (13/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.

Also covers

Charge Nurse · Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (Clinic LPN) · Clinic Nurse · Home Health Licensed Practical Nurse (Home Health LPN) · Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) · Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) · Office Nurse · Pediatric LPN (Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse) and related titles

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