Colorado is the state where nurses burn out most frequently, while Rhode Island has the lowest burnout rate for the role, according to a Nursa report shared with Becker’s.
Nursa, a healthcare staffing platform, used multiple data sources for direct and indirect indicators of burnout to create a burnout score. The primary metrics collected per state were nurses per 1,000 population, number of nurses in demand, mean annual earnings, mean hourly earnings, average hours worked per week, cost of living index, and Google Trends data for search terms for “nurse retirement” and “nurse burnout.”
The company also used metrics such as emotional strain and patients per nurse. The final burnout score — with 10 as the highest score — was computed using weighted percentile rankings across all derived metrics and search trends. Metrics with ties to burnout risk, such as the satisfaction index and overwork index, were given higher weights, while the Google Trends data was assigned the lower weight.
Here are the states with the highest and lowest nurse burnout scores.
Highest
- Colorado: 8.42
- Arizona: 8.31
- New York: 8.14
- North Carolina: 7.97
- Delaware: 7.94
- Maryland: 7.79
- Nevada: 7.75
- Montana: 7.71
- Pennsylvania: 7.7
- Maine: 7.62
Lowest
- Rhode Island: 4.46
- Vermont: 4.82
- Minnesota: 4.92
- Wisconsin: 5.76
- New Mexico: 5.87
- Alaska: 5.98
- Tennessee: 5.99
- Nebraska: 6.01
- Ohio: 6.11
- Mississippi: 6.43
