Nursing Assistants
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Calculated automation risk
Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.
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User poll
Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 48% chance of automation.
What do you think the risk of automation is?
What is the likelihood that Nursing Assistants will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?
Sentiment
The following graph is included wherever there is a substantial amount of votes to render meaningful data. These visual representations display user poll results over time, providing a significant indication of sentiment trends.
Sentiment over time (yearly)
Growth
The number of 'Nursing Assistants' job openings is expected to rise 4.4% by 2033
Total employment, and estimated job openings
Updated projections are due 09-2024.
Wages
In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Nursing Assistants' was $38,200, or $18 per hour
'Nursing Assistants' were paid 20.5% lower than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060
Wages over time
Volume
As of 2023 there were 1,351,760 people employed as 'Nursing Assistants' within the United States.
This represents around 0.9% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 112 people are employed as 'Nursing Assistants'.
Job description
Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.
SOC Code: 31-1131.00
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Comments
A robot doing this single task would need, at least to comply with legal regulations on sanitation, to have a self-cleaning system that works at least three times per procedure, a contamination area suitable for the robot where it can expel the waste, a technician to supervise that the hygiene process has been correctly executed, sterilization supplies applied by a third party or by a second mechanism to prevent contamination of blood or biological secretions in new procedures.
And the biggest problem is that if the robot were to fail to perform its hygiene process and contaminate another patient, the lawsuits would be catastrophic for a task that could be performed by a human in less time and for a low wage.
I believe that it would cost the wage of four nursing assistants to cover the maintenances and pay technicians for a single robot.
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