Insert peripheral or central intravenous catheters.

“Insert peripheral or central intravenous catheters.” is a core task performed by Nurse Anesthetists. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#18 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Operate medical equipment. in Controlling Machines and Processes
• Administer basic health care or medical treatments. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Manage patients' airway or pulmonary status, using techniques such as endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, and extubation. · importance 5.0
• Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques. · importance 4.9
• Monitor patients' responses, including skin color, pupil dilation, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, ventilation, or urine output, using invasive and noninvasive techniques. · importance 4.9
• Select, order, or administer anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids or blood products as necessary. · importance 4.8
• Select, prepare, or use equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics. · importance 4.7
• Perform or manage regional anesthetic techniques, such as local, spinal, epidural, caudal, nerve blocks and intravenous blocks. · importance 4.7
• Assess patients' medical histories to predict anesthesia response. · importance 4.7
• Develop anesthesia care plans. · importance 4.7
• Obtain informed consent from patients for anesthesia procedures. · importance 4.7
• Perform pre-anesthetic screenings, including physical evaluations and patient interviews, and document results. · importance 4.6
• Prepare prescribed solutions and administer local, intravenous, spinal, or other anesthetics, following specified methods and procedures. · importance 4.6
• Calibrate and test anesthesia equipment. · importance 4.6
• Evaluate patients' post-surgical or post-anesthesia responses, taking appropriate corrective actions or requesting consultation if complications occur. · importance 4.6
• Administer post-anesthesia medications or fluids to support patients' cardiovascular systems. · importance 4.5

See all tasks on the Nurse Anesthetists page.

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-18374,
  title  = {Insert peripheral or central intravenous catheters.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-18374}
}