Document findings of physical examinations.

“Document findings of physical examinations.” is a core task performed by Nurse Midwives. Among the occupation's 21 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#10 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.

• Maintain health or medical records. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

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 1.00. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.003% share of AI-use records mapped to this task

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients. · importance 5.0
• Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight. · importance 5.0
• Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information. · importance 5.0
• Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms. · importance 4.9
• Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management. · importance 4.9
• Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations. · importance 4.9
• Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others. · importance 4.9
• Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests. · importance 4.8
• Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients. · importance 4.8
• Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care. · importance 4.8
• Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations. · importance 4.8
• Write information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers. · importance 4.7
• Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women. · importance 4.7
• Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise. · importance 4.5

See all tasks on the Nurse Midwives 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
• 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-18448,
  title  = {Document findings of physical examinations.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  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},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-18448}
}