Can AI Replace Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses in 2026?

Lower exposure. AI could handle about 35% of today's licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses tasks by 2036, and there is a 6% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI mostly assists people in this role.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

18%

Headcount (2025 = 100)

102

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

6% 2030 · 6% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

1.2 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Record food and fluid intake and output".Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments".Get visibly better at your human core: "Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts".Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.

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Based on 23 O*NET tasks for "Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses" (SOC 29-2061.00). LLM alone: 8% of tasks; with AI tools: 42%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10