Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

No strongly automatable task in the current data release.

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Educate patients and family members about mental health and medical conditions, preventive health measures, medications, or treatment plans.50
• Consult with psychiatrists or other professionals when unusual or complex cases are encountered.47
• Refer patients requiring more specialized or complex treatment to psychiatrists, primary care physicians, or other medical specialists.47

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

• Evaluate patients' behavior to formulate diagnoses or assess treatments.32
• Develop practice protocols for mental health problems, based on review and evaluation of published research.33
• Distinguish between physiologically- and psychologically-based disorders, and diagnose appropriately.34

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 40 puts Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this level is about the mix: 0 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 17 augmentable, and 3 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: adopt AI deliberately on the augmentable tasks and build visible evidence of the durable ones.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.

Labor-market context

• $97,550median wage
• 3,379,720employed
• 189,100annual openings
• +4.9%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Clinical Nurse Specialists 43
• Psychiatrists 37
• Psychiatric Technicians 41
• Family Medicine Physicians 47
• Nurse Practitioner 17
• Acute Care Nurses 52

FAQ — Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

What does a score of 40 mean for a Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 40 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

This role has no strongly automatable task in the current data release.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The most durable responsibilities are: Evaluate patients' behavior to formulate diagnoses or assess treatments; Develop practice protocols for mental health problems, based on review and evaluation of published research; Distinguish between physiologically- and psychologically-based disorders, and diagnose appropriately. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.