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Will AI take my licensed practical nurse (lpn) job?

Nursing · SOC 29-2061
86
/ 100
Career Diagnostic Score · nursing

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

In 1 year
85
↓ 1 pts
In 3 years
83
↓ 3 pts
In 5 years
82
↓ 4 pts

Tasks at risk

  • Charting routine medication administration
  • Standardized care-plan documentation
  • Patient-education printout selection

Skills to build that AI can't replace

  • Bedside care and medication administration
  • Vital signs and basic clinical assessment
  • Resident or patient relationships in long-term care

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What this score means for Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).

The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) role scores in the most AI-resistant band. The work that defines it — the physical, procedural, and relational core — is not on the table for current generative AI. Routine paperwork is being eaten; the actual job is not. Over the next 5 years the score is projected to drift down by 4 points based on the nursing vertical's drift rate. We update the score every 3 months as new data comes in.

The four signals.

Can AI do it directly?
4%
Share of tasks AI can already do on its own.
Could AI tools do it soon?
24%
Share of tasks AI tools could plausibly handle soon.
Are people using AI for this now?
15/100
How much real workers are using AI for this work today.
Replacing or helping?
14%
Of that usage, how much is AI replacing vs. helping the worker.

All four are blended into your single 0–100 score. See the exact formula →

What to do this quarter.

The single highest-leverage move for someone in this role this quarter:

An EHR-integrated AI scribe (DAX, Abridge) for shift documentation.

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Other roles in Nursing.

Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) 89Registered Nurse 88Nurse Practitioner 83

Sources for this score.

  • Anthropic Economic Index — Anthropic's real usage data (March 2026 release), used for the "real usage" and "replacing vs. helping" signals. huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex
  • Eloundou et al. (2023) — the Stanford / OpenAI study used for the "can AI do it" and "could AI tools do it soon" signals. arXiv:2303.10130
  • U.S. Department of Labor (O*NET 28.0) — the official task-and-skill list for every job in America. onetcenter.org/database
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — the official jobs classification (SOC code). bls.gov/oes