Over one-quarter, or 28%, of nurses based in the ambulatory care and outpatient setting reported feeling “distressed” when it comes to their well-being in 2024, while an additional 25% also reported to be struggling, according to the 2024 to 2025 healthcare well-being index, a burnout and benchmarking survey developed at the Mayo Clinic a decade ago.
The 2024 and 2025 report surveyed a total of 97,000 advanced practice providers, dentists, employees, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, residents and fellows.
Among these healthcare workers the survey also assessed 9,209 nurses across seven different practice settings.
Within all nurse practice settings, the ambulatory and outpatient setting had the second-highest rate of “distressed” practitioners, led only by the procedural and hospital-based ICU settings, where 29% of nurses felt distressed.
Just 23% of outpatient and ambulatory nurses reported “thriving” when it comes to their well-being, while 24% were doing “OK.”
Overall, 26.88% of nurses reported feeling distressed in 2024, down from 27.33% in 2023 and 32.53% in 2022.
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