This week, Phyllis Quinlan, RNC, MS, CLNC, CEN, CCRN, shares some insight on the possible benefits professional life coaching can bring to nursing: So you still love nursing, but the stress, frustration, and sometimes confusion can be a real barrier to personal and professional satisfaction. You sense you want something more, although you can’t quite identify what that might be or how to achieve it.

Rising MRSA rates are plaguing hospitals in some of the world’s most prosperous countries.

Australian researchers at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, noted many hospitals in Australia, Canada, and the United States have lowered the number of available beds but increased their outpatients, resulting in greater strain on already short-staffed hospital workers.