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Intelligence Verdict
AI and your work

Registered nurse

What the US government's figures say about this job, the tasks it involves, and every study we found on what AI does to it. None of this is a forecast of your own job.

  • 3,465,400US jobs, 2025
  • $97,550median pay a year, 2025
  • +6%government outlook, 2025 to 35
What the government says

The official outlook.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.

AI in the government's outlook

The government's profile of this job doesn't mention AI.

BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026

US jobs, 2025
3,465,400
Median pay, 2025
$97,550 per year

$46.90 an hour

Outlook, 2025 to 35
6% (Faster than average)
The work itself

The job's main tasks.

As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.

  1. 01Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
  2. 02Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
  3. 03Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
  4. 04Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
  5. 05Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.

O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026

The evidence on AI

What studies have found.

We haven't found a trial or study of AI in this job yet. The score below is the best measure so far of how much its work overlaps with what people do with AI.

AI applicability scoreCompany-reported

0.12on a scale from 0 to 1

01

Microsoft AI applicability score for Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141)

How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.

Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0