Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.

“Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.” is a supplemental task performed by Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#23 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.

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
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.3 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 100% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

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.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. · importance 4.7
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration. · importance 4.5
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts. · importance 4.5
• Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations. · importance 4.5
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them. · importance 4.4
• Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks. · importance 4.4
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants. · importance 4.4
• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. · importance 4.4
• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary. · importance 4.3
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions. · importance 4.3
• Record food and fluid intake and output. · importance 4.2
• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers. · importance 4.2
• Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics. · importance 4.2
• Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 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  = {Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.},
  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},
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}