# Nursing Assistants

> Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

- **SOC code:** 31-1131.00
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-31-1131-00
- **Also known as:** Certified Nurses Aide (CNA), Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Nursing Assistant, Patient Care Assistant (PCA), Certified Medication Aide (CMA), Certified Nurse Aide (CNA), Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA), Nurses' Aide
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs.
- Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
- Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation.
- Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
- Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.
- Review patients' dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
- Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.
- Supply, collect, or empty bedpans.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Service Orientation _(transferable_skill)_
- Customer and Personal Service _(knowledge)_
- Oral Comprehension _(ability)_
- Problem Sensitivity _(ability)_
- Oral Expression _(ability)_
- Near Vision _(ability)_
- Active Listening _(essential_skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(transferable_skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(ability)_
- Administration and Management _(knowledge)_
- English Language _(knowledge)_
- Monitoring _(essential_skill)_

**Skills in demand:**
- Social Perceptiveness _(Common Skill)_
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_
- English Language _(Common Skill)_
- Reading Comprehension _(Common Skill)_
- Information Ordering _(Specialized Skill)_
- Deductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Word _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Excel _(Common Skill)_
- Inductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- Apache Spark _(hot technology)_
- Epic Systems _(hot technology)_
- MEDITECH software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Office software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Word _(hot technology)_
- Billing software
- FaceTime
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Health information database software
- Medical condition coding software

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 8th percentile (Low) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 20th percentile (Low) — source: eloundou_gamma.
- **AI assistant applicability (Microsoft):** 5th percentile (Low) — source: microsoft_applicability.
- **Projected employment (BLS 2024–34):** 2.3% growth (About average); 204.1k annual openings; 1,441.5k → 1,474k jobs.
- **Pay & employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** median $39,530; 1,388,430 employed.

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **Microsoft “Working with AI”** (working-with-ai) — Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-31-1131-00_