Perform saline flushes or dispense anticoagulant drugs, such as Heparin, through intravenous (IV) lines, in accordance with licensing restrictions and under the direction of a medical doctor.

“Perform saline flushes or dispense anticoagulant drugs, such as Heparin, through intravenous (IV) lines, in accordance with licensing restrictions and under the direction of a medical doctor.” is a supplemental task performed by Phlebotomists. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#24 most important).

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.

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

• Dispose of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies. · importance 5.0
• Organize or clean blood-drawing trays, ensuring that all instruments are sterile and all needles, syringes, or related items are of first-time use. · importance 4.9
• Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods. · importance 4.8
• Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes. · importance 4.8
• Dispose of blood or other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies. · importance 4.7
• Conduct standards tests, such as blood alcohol, blood culture, oral glucose tolerance, glucose screening, blood smears, or peak and trough drug levels tests. · importance 4.7
• Collect specimens at specific time intervals for tests, such as those assessing therapeutic drug levels. · importance 4.7
• Process blood or other fluid samples for further analysis by other medical professionals. · importance 4.7
• Provide sample analysis results to physicians to assist diagnosis. · importance 4.5
• Administer subcutaneous or intramuscular injects, in accordance with licensing restrictions. · importance 4.5
• Enter patient, specimen, insurance, or billing information into computer. · importance 4.4
• Document route of specimens from collection to laboratory analysis and diagnosis. · importance 4.4
• Draw blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods. · importance 4.4
• Draw blood from arteries, using arterial collection techniques. · importance 4.4

See all tasks on the Phlebotomists 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.

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  title  = {Perform saline flushes or dispense anticoagulant drugs, such as Heparin, through intravenous (IV) lines, in accordance with licensing restrictions and under the direction of a medical doctor.},
  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-19391}
}