Administer first aid
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The documentation around care is highly automatable and that is where the time goes back. The care itself needs physical presence and someone accountable for the outcome, so this work stays where it is.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Direct care and assistance |
| Jobs that do it | 11 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Vertical agents |
| O*NET activity | Assisting and Caring for Others (4.A.4.a.5) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 11 occupations that perform it.
- Carry injured offenders or employees to safety and provide emergency first aid when necessary.
- Provide emergency medical services as required, and perform light to heavy rescue functions at emergencies.
- Render aid to accident survivors and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries.
- Examine injured persons and administer first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary, using training and medical supplies and equipment.
- Activate emergency action plans and administer first aid, as necessary.
- Provide for physical safety of groups, performing such activities as providing first aid or directing emergency evacuations.
- Administer first aid to injured group participants.
- Perform first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when required.
- Administer emergency first aid, wrap injuries, treat minor chronic disabilities, or refer injured persons to physicians.
- Administer first aid according to prescribed procedures and notify emergency medical personnel when necessary.
- Provide emergency first aid and summon medical assistance when necessary.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing for the care itself. The time comes back from the documentation around it, so the stack worth building is the recording one, on the pages for that work.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
Who does this work
11 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
- First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
- Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
- Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants
- Nannies
- Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
- Recreation Workers
- Residential Advisors
- Tour Guides and Escorts
- Travel Guides
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Administer emergency medical treatment”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Treat medical emergencies | 19 |
| Implement advanced life support techniques | 8 |
| Provide first aid or rescue assistance in emergencies | 6 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.