Establish nursing policies or standards.

Establish nursing policies or standards. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 2 occupations and seen in 7 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 7 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 7 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.003% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Develop, implement, or evaluate standards of nursing practice in specialty area, such as pediatrics, acute care, and geriatrics. · Clinical Nurse Specialists · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Develop and maintain departmental policies, procedures, objectives, or patient care standards, based on evidence-based practice guidelines or expert opinion. · Clinical Nurse Specialists · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Establish practice guidelines for specialty areas such as primary health care of women, care of the childbearing family, and newborn care. · Nurse Midwives · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Develop nursing service philosophies, goals, policies, priorities, or procedures. · Clinical Nurse Specialists · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Participate in the development of practice protocols. · Acute Care Nurses · importance 3.8 · exposure with tools
• Develop practice protocols for mental health problems, based on review and evaluation of published research. · Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools
• Participate in the development, review, or evaluation of nursing practice protocols. · Critical Care Nurses · importance 3.5 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Clinical Nurse Specialists
• Nurse Midwives

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Establish nursing policies or standards.},
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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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