Becker's Healthcare September 16, 2024
Claire Wallace

The trend of “quiet quitting” has swept through the U.S. workforce in the last few years, touching every industry, including healthcare.

Now, there could be a rise in nurse practitioners and physician assistants quiet quitting, according to a Sept. 11 report from Medscape.

A Gallup poll updated in 2023 found that about 50% of the workforce were “quiet quitters” or disengaged in the office, while a 2024 survey found that 57% of frontline medical staff, including NPs and PAs, report being disengaged at work.

One family NP in Madison, Ala., told Medscape that despite telling her office manager she felt burnt out, she was often triple-booked, and felt as though no one took her stress seriously. Eventually, she...

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