Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

“Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.” is a supplemental task performed by Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#18 most important). About 57% 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.

• Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use. in Handling and Moving Objects

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

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

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

@misc{singulariki-task-529,
  title  = {Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.},
  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-529}
}