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ISCO 2221 · O*NET 29-1141.00 · codes unverified

Registered nurse

Paperwork is the exposed part. Everything the job is actually about happens within arm's length of another person.

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Resilience Holding

The shape of the work holds. The admin around it thins out considerably.

0 rebuilding 100 anchored

Scale, labels and thresholds are provisional. This is open question Q-02.

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How the score is made

Four declared inputs, never collapsed into one number. Assistance is kept apart from outright automation, because a tool that makes you faster and a tool that replaces you are not the same event. Physical work counts as shelter only to the extent robotics cannot reach it.

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Note on this occupation Administrative burden is the part of nursing most likely to shrink. Whether that time returns to patients or to caseload is a policy question, not a data one.

Assisted
46

Higher is generally good news. It means more of the work gets faster without the work going away.

Done outright
16

This is the number most people mean when they say exposure. It is kept separate from assistance on purpose.

Physical
74

Protective only for as long as robotics cannot reach it. Read this one next to the robotics number, never alone.

Robotics reach
25

Low reach turns physical work into shelter. High reach turns it into the main exposure.

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What changes

Tasks moving to machines, in whole or in part.

  • Charting, handover notes and discharge summaries.
  • Triage prompts and early-warning scoring.
  • Rostering and supply management.

What stays human

Tasks that need a person, and why.

  • Noticing the patient who has changed before the numbers do.
  • Physical care that requires being in the room.
  • Telling a family something they do not want to hear.

What's new

Work that did not exist in this job ten years ago.

  • Monitoring patients remotely at a scale wards never managed.
  • Working alongside decision support and knowing when to overrule it.
  • Escalation duties created by continuous monitoring.

These three lists are editorial commentary, written against task-level data but not generated from it (OCC-05). Treat them as the author's reading, not as output.

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