Nurse Midwives

Explain procedures to patients, family members, staff members or others.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate clear, tailored explanations of procedures for patients, families, and staff and deliver them via text or speech at scale with high accuracy.

Document findings of physical examinations.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can accurately document physical exam findings from clinician input, audio/video capture, or structured data and produce formatted notes suitable for medical records.

Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can provide comprehensive, evidence‑based education to patients and families about prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, and interconception care tailored to literacy and language needs.

Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can collect and document patient histories, symptoms, and diagnostic information from interviews or uploads and synthesize them into structured records.

Write information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate medical record entries and narrative summaries that communicate patient information effectively to other providers, given accurate input data.

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in midwifery.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can continuously scan, summarize, synthesize new literature, and produce actionable digests or alerts that effectively keep clinicians abreast of developments.

Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, health care teams, or the community.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can plan curricula, generate and deliver adaptive instructional content, assess learners, and produce program evaluations at scale, effectively automating most educational program tasks.

Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.

AI: Partial - AI can analyze fetal heart signals and imaging to estimate size and monitor development, but cannot fully replace hands-on palpation, manual measurements, and some aspects of bedside assessment.

Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.

AI: Partial - AI can provide real-time decision support, checklists, and guidance for emergency stabilization but cannot perform the hands-on procedures or assume clinical responsibility required to initiate interventions.

Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.

AI: Partial - AI can support prenatal/intrapartum/postpartum/newborn care with monitoring, risk stratification, and telehealth guidance, but cannot replace hands‑on examinations, deliveries, or in-person clinical responsibilities.

Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.

AI: Partial - AI can create individualized care plans and suggest management steps based on data, but implementation often requires clinician judgment, physical interventions, and legal/licensure actions that AI cannot perform autonomously.

Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.

AI: Partial - AI can recommend which diagnostic or lab tests to order and interpret results with high accuracy, but it generally cannot autonomously place orders or assume final clinical responsibility for interpretations.

Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women.

AI: Partial - AI can support many aspects of primary reproductive health care through decision support, triage, and telemedicine, but cannot fully perform hands-on pregnancy and childbirth care or assume legal clinical responsibility.

Consult with or refer patients to appropriate specialists when conditions exceed the scope of practice or expertise.

AI: Partial - AI can analyze records and guidelines to recommend appropriate referrals or flag cases that exceed scope, but it cannot assume final clinical responsibility or perform the human-led coordination required for referral.

Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.

AI: Partial - AI and connected devices can capture and help interpret some vitals and remote findings, but AI cannot perform hands‑on physical examinations such as pelvic or breast exams and many reflex tests.

Prescribe medications as permitted by state regulations.

AI: Partial - AI can generate prescribing recommendations, check interactions and dosing, and prepare orders, but it generally cannot legally or ethically issue prescriptions independently without a licensed clinician in most jurisdictions.

Establish practice guidelines for specialty areas such as primary health care of women, care of the childbearing family, and newborn care.

AI: Partial - AI can synthesize evidence and draft guideline documents for specialty practice areas, but establishing and endorsing final practice guidelines requires human clinical judgment, consensus building, and regulatory signoff.

Conduct clinical research on topics such as maternal or infant health care, contraceptive methods, breastfeeding, and gynecological care.

AI: Partial - AI can design studies, analyze datasets, and draft manuscripts, substantially automating research tasks, but it cannot fully conduct clinical trials, obtain informed consent, or oversee patient-facing procedures without human investigators.

Manage newborn care during the first weeks of life.

AI: Partial - AI can provide decision support, remote monitoring, and care guidance for newborns, but it cannot replace in‑person hands‑on newborn management tasks such as physical exams, feeding assistance, and immunizations.

Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.

AI: Not automatable - Insertion of IUDs, fitting cervical barriers, and dispensing procedures require hands‑on sterile technique and in‑person clinical skills that AI cannot perform.