When Caring Costs Too Much: Medscape Nurse Practitioner Burnout & Depression Report 2026 Jennifer Nelson

https://www.medscape.com/p11/when-caring-costs-too-much-medscape-nurse-practitioner-2026a1000q82?ecd=WNL_physrep_260815_MSCPEDIT_burnout-depression_etid8597485&uac=148436CN&impID=8597485 Nearly half of nurse practitioners (NPs) are burned out, and for 1 in 6, that exhaustion has curdled into something heavier: both burnout and depression. Worse, 63% of NPs don't believe relief is in sight. When the majority of a profession stops hoping, burnout may not be just a phase, but the baseline.