Mostly Resilient
Last Update: 11/4/2026
AI Resilience Score for Nurse Midwives:
64.9%
Median Score
Meaningful human contribution
Measures the parts of the occupation that still require a human touch. This score averages data from up to four AI exposure datasets, focusing on the role’s resilience against automation.
High
Long-term employer demand
Predicts the health of the job market for this role through 2034. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it balances projected annual job openings (60%) with overall employment growth (40%).
Med
Sustained economic opportunity
Measures future earning potential and career flexibility. This score is a blend of total projected labor income (67%) and the role’s inherent ability to adapt to economic and technological shifts (33%).
High
This reflects the reliability of your score based on the number of data sources available for this career and how closely those sources agree on the outlook. A higher confidence means more consistent evidence from labor experts and AI models.
This result is backed by strong agreement across multiple data sources.
AI Resilience Report forNurse Midwives
$134,040 median salary•400 annual openings•SOC Code: 29-1161.00
Nurse Midwives are somewhat more resilient to AI impacts than most occupations, according to our analysis of 8 sources.
Nurse midwifery is labeled "Mostly Resilient" because the heart of the job, including delivering babies, providing hands-on care, and offering emotional support during one of the most intense moments of a person's life, simply cannot be done by AI. The tasks that AI is starting to handle are mostly administrative, like automatically drafting chart notes and summarizing patient records, which actually frees midwives up to spend more time with patients rather than threatening their jobs.
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This role is mostly resilient
Nurse midwifery is labeled "Mostly Resilient" because the heart of the job, including delivering babies, providing hands-on care, and offering emotional support during one of the most intense moments of a person's life, simply cannot be done by AI. The tasks that AI is starting to handle are mostly administrative, like automatically drafting chart notes and summarizing patient records, which actually frees midwives up to spend more time with patients rather than threatening their jobs.
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Nurse Midwives
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How can Nurse Midwives prepare for AI?
Latest AI news for Nurse Midwives
These articles highlight how AI is enhancing the field of nurse midwifery, making it a promising career. For instance, the study on AI in clinical decision-making shows how technology can support midwives in making informed choices for patient care. Additionally, the review on AI in midwifery education underscores the potential for better assessment tools, ensuring that future midwives are well-prepared. Embracing AI resilience in this field means leveraging these advancements to improve patient outcomes while enhancing the role of nurse midwives in healthcare.
Small AI Can Create More and Better Jobs by Reaching Everyone
techsauce.co • 10/17/2026
The most useful AI for emerging economies may not be the biggest model in the world. It may be a tool that helps a nurse assess a patient's...
Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Nursing Clinical Decision-Making: An Umbrella Review
onlinelibrary.wiley.com • 3/17/2026
Aim To describe contemporary peer-reviewed literature on artificial intelligence in nurses' clinical decision-making.
AI Is Quietly Transforming Nursing.
www.psychiatrist.com • 12/10/2025
AI is rapidly moving into hospitals. But it's not replacing clinicians. It's helping them make better decisions and easing their workloads.
The Revolution in Midwifery Education: How AI and Deep Learning are Transforming Outcome-Based Assessments?
www.dovepress.com • 8/30/2025
This study reviews the role of AI and deep learning algorithms in enhancing outcome-based assessments in midwifery education.
NUS Nursing strengthens global partnerships, showcases innovative VR and AI technologies in nursing education
www.eurekalert.org • 10/27/2024
The Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Nursing),...
More Career Info
Career: Nurse Midwives
They assist pregnant women by providing care during pregnancy, helping deliver babies, and supporting new moms with health advice.
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Alternate Titles
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) · Nurse Midwife · Staff Certified Nurse Midwife · Staff Nurse Midwife
Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$134,040
Jobs (2025)
8,200
Growth (2025-35)
+11.5%
Annual Openings
400
Education
Master's degree
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025-2035
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Provide patients with direct family planning services, such as inserting intrauterine devices, dispensing oral contraceptives, and fitting cervical barriers, including cervical caps or diaphragms.
2
Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.
3
Initiate emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
4
Provide primary health care, including pregnancy and childbirth, to women.
5
Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.
6
Manage newborn care during the first weeks of life.
7
Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
