Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.

“Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.” is a supplemental task performed by Psychiatric Aides. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#13 most important). About 74% 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
• Perform administrative or clerical activities. in Performing Administrative Activities

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: T3.

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.

• 0.002% 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

• Listen and provide emotional support and encouragement to psychiatric patients. · importance 4.6
• Provide mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients with routine physical, emotional, psychological, or rehabilitation care under the direction of nursing or medical staff. · importance 4.6
• Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff. · importance 4.5
• Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury. · importance 4.4
• Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers. · importance 4.3
• Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans. · importance 4.3
• Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas. · importance 4.3
• Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities. · importance 4.2
• Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary. · importance 4.2
• Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine. · importance 4.2
• Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion. · importance 4.2
• Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment. · importance 4.1
• Perform nursing duties, such as administering medications, measuring vital signs, collecting specimens, or drawing blood samples. · importance 4.0
• Interview patients upon admission and record information. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Psychiatric Aides 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.

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  title  = {Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.},
  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-18698}
}