AI Delegation Index

AI Delegation Index

What work could you hand off to an AI agent?

Orderlies

Low

AI agents have a narrow supporting role here, mainly helping with preparation or documentation rather than doing the physical work.

Where agents can help most

  1. 1

    Track specimen and document deliveries

    Use an agent to turn pickup details into a clean transport log for specimens, lab items, pharmacy items, or department messages.

  2. 2

    Track supplies and compliance records

    Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear supplies and compliance record.

  3. 3

    Prepare service and care notes

    Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear service and care record.

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O*NET-SOC 31-1132.00 · #865 of 923

Result context

How to read this result

Transport patients to areas such as operating rooms or x-ray rooms using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds. May maintain stocks of supplies or clean and transport equipment. Psychiatric orderlies are included in Psychiatric Aides.

National position
#865 of 923 occupations
Top 94% of occupations
Overall AI delegation potential
Low
Potential of score-contributing workflows
Low · 0/100
Meaningful work covered
0%

The overall rating combines how useful the best agent workflows are with how much of the occupation they address. It is not an estimate of job automation or replacement.

Recommended agent uses

3 workflows you could delegate to AI

1

Track specimen and document deliveries

Documentation support · not included in the score

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn pickup details into a clean transport log for specimens, lab items, pharmacy items, or department messages. Give it the destination, label details, time picked up, and who received it so it can prepare a simple record and remind you what still needs a signature or confirmation.

Where you stay involved

You verify the label, carry the item to the correct place, confirm it reached the right person, and stop if anything looks off. You still decide whether the item is safe to move and whether it can be released to the recipient.

Review level: High

2

Track supplies and compliance records

Documentation support · not included in the score

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear supplies and compliance record. It can organize the entries, check required fields, and flag gaps before you submit or store the record.

Where you stay involved

You perform the hands-on or in-person work, confirm that the source details are accurate, and approve the final record before it is used.

Review level: Medium

3

Prepare service and care notes

Documentation support · not included in the score

How you could use an agent

Use an agent to turn the notes, forms, readings, and completion details you provide into a clear service and care record. It can organize the entries, check required fields, and flag gaps before you submit or store the record.

Where you stay involved

You perform the hands-on or in-person work, confirm that the source details are accurate, and approve the final record before it is used.

Review level: Medium

Documentation and coordination support

AI can assist without owning the physical outcome

These support steps are shown separately. They do not count as agentic workflows and do not increase this occupation's score.

Reposition patient after instruction

Use an agent to prepare a quick bedside note from your repositioning instructions, including the planned position, supports used, and any pain or skin concerns you reported. It can help you keep track of what was done for each patient and what still needs nursing attention later.

Supporting analysis

Why this occupation's AI delegation potential is Low

Underlying methodology score

0 / 100

This technical score determines the qualitative rating; it is not an estimate of the share of the occupation that can be automated.

Importance & frequency0
AI capability0
Digital actionability0
End-to-end leverage0
Safety & reversibility0
Meaningful-work coverage
0%
Physical-work modifier
Material
Safety modifier
Moderate
Qualitative judgment
No material constraint
O*NET task evidence
22 tasks

O*NET 31.0 · methodology 3.3.0. Every workflow passes an action-level physical-execution and protected human-and-veterinary clinical-action gate. Documentation workflows must own a complete digital loop and use digital task evidence only; support-only workflows are disclosed separately and excluded from scoring. Artistic, editorial, normative, and policy-dependent work receives a transparent human-judgment constraint. National ranking within 923 scored O*NET occupations under methodology 3.3.0.

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