Suzanne Gordon Explained

Suzanne Gordon
Birth Date:2 November 1945
Education:Cornell University, BA
Nationality:American

Suzanne Gordon is an American journalist and author who writes about healthcare delivery and health care systems and patient safety and nursing.[1] Gordon coined the term "Team Intelligence," to describe the constellation of skills and knowledge needed to build the kind of teams upon which patient safety depends.[2] [3] Her work includes, First Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety (Cornell University Press, 2012), a collection of essays edited with Ross Koppel[4] and Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Safety and Teamwork (Cornell University Press, 2012), written with commercial pilot Patrick Mendenhall and medical educator Bonnie Blair O’Connor, with a foreword by Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.

It also includes books about nursing's contribution to health care including Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, and Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care. With Bernice Buresh, she is author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, which is in its third edition. Along with Sioban Nelson, she co-edits The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series at Cornell University Press.

She is author, co-author or editor of 18 books. She is currently working on a book about the innovations and clinical care at the Veterans Health Administration.[5] Gordon is co-author of the play about team relationships in healthcare entitled Bedside Manners. This play has been performed at numerous venues including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The National Patient Safety Foundation, and is being used in Interprofessional Education programs in the US and Canada, including the University of Toronto and The University of California at San Francisco, Yale University, and many others.[6] [7] [8]

Gordon has been a radio commentator for US CBS Radio and National Public Radio's Marketplace.[9] She is a certified TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer.[10] Gordon has lectured all over the world on healthcare issues.[11] She is assistant adjunct professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Nursing. She is also an affiliated scholar at the Wilson Centre at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine.[12] and an editorial board member of the Journal of Interprofessional Care.[13]

Early years

Suzanne Gordon grew up in New York City and Scarsdale, New York. Her father, Dan M. Gordon, M.D., was an ophthalmologist, who practiced at New York Hospital and was a professor at Cornell Medical School. He did the original research that adapted the use of ACTH and Cortisone for the treatment of inflammatory eye diseases.[14]

She got her first job in journalism in 1970 at United Press International.[15] She also helped found and write for Women: A Journal of Liberation, one of the first feminist journals in the US.[16]

Career

For the first part of her career she wrote largely about political culture and women's issues, writing Lonely in America (1996), a journalistic account of loneliness as a mass social problem in American society.[17] She also wrote a widely reviewed expose of ballet as work – Off Balance: The Real World of Ballet.[18] [19] The book challenged the myth that everything is beautiful at the ballet.[20] [21]

Gordon began writing about healthcare after she had her first baby at a small community hospital outside of Boston. Socialized like so many others, only to focus on the role of physicians in healthcare, she was surprised to discover the importance of nurses in monitoring and managing her labor and delivery, making sure she and her baby were safe, and helping her to cope with her post-labor problems and learn how to take care of her baby. She wrote her first article on nursing, "The Crisis in Caring" for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.[22] She then spent three years at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, following three nurses for her book Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines.

When President Clinton launched his failed health care initiative, which launched the era of managed care, Gordon began to journalistically document the impact of managed care on patients and caregivers alike. Her book Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost-Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nursing and Patient Care explored the problems of for-profit driven managed care.

In 2000, with the publication of the paperback version of Dana Beth Weinberg's Code Green, for which she wrote a foreword,[23] Gordon and her colleagues Fran Benson and Sioban Nelson, launched the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series at Cornell University Press which has published 30 titles on healthcare.[4]

In the mid 2000 Gordon began to focus more on patient safety. Concerned about the parlous state of physician/nurse communication, she wrote the play Bedside Manners, with playwright Lisa Hayes in 2013.

Awards

Books

Board and committee memberships

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Suzanne Gordon - School of Nursing - University of Minnesota . www.nursing.umn.edu . January 17, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150919121405/http://www.nursing.umn.edu/densford/events/suzanne-gordon/index.htm . September 19, 2015 . dead.
  2. Web site: School of Nursing hosts leadership event with award-winning journalist Suzanne Gordon. UC Davis Health, Public Affairs and. Marketing. www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
  3. We've Only Just Begun To Make Headway On Patient Safety. Janet. Corrigan. November 1, 2012. Health Affairs. 31. 11. 2588–2589. 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1039. free.
  4. Web site: Books.
  5. Web site: Why privatizing the VA health care system is a bad idea – The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com.
  6. Web site: Playing Around to Improve Care. www.hhnmag.com.
  7. Web site: Bedside Manners: See how effective communication in healthcare improves patient safety. bedsidemannerstheplay.com.
  8. Web site: Archived copy . www.businessinnovationfactory.com . January 17, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150221140059/http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/sites/default/files/lab-documents/power-narrative/narrativeattendeebiosrev020515.pdf . February 21, 2015 . dead.
  9. Web site: UNotes | University of Hartford . Unotes.hartford.edu . 2019-09-24.
  10. Book: Successful Nurse Communication Safe Care, Health Workplaces & Rewarding Careers. 9780803646612. Boynton. Beth. August 26, 2015.
  11. Web site: Advances in Rehabilitation Nursing – 2013 | Keynote Speakers | powered by RegOnline. www.regonline.com.
  12. Web site: Annual report . 2011 . static1.squarespace.com . 2019-09-23.
  13. Web site: JICare Blog. jinterprofessionalc.blogspot.com.
  14. Therapeutic Habits in Ophthalmology. Dan M.. Gordon. January 1, 1959. AMA Archives of Ophthalmology. 61. 1. 72–78. jamanetwork.com. 10.1001/archopht.1959.00940090074010. 13605339.
  15. Web site: Deconstructing Paul de Man. jacobinmag.com.
  16. Web site: open source history – women: a journal of liberation volume 1, no 1 fall 1969.
  17. Book: Friends: What Would I do Without Them? : Finding Real and Valuable Friendships in an Unfriendly World. 9781881293026. Etuk. Emma S.. 1999.
  18. Web site: OFF BALANCE: The Real World of Ballet by Suzanne Gordon | Kirkus Reviews. www.kirkusreviews.com.
  19. News: New & Noteworthy. August 12, 1984. NYTimes.com.
  20. Web site: Behind the Curtain: The Body, Control, and Ballet . Kelso . Paul . 2015 . hwwnorton.com . 2019-09-23.
  21. News: Starving for their art. Suzanne. Gordon. Boston.com. The Boston Globe.
  22. http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Rpts/rt5_m2m3_1989.pdf p. 42, footnote 5
  23. Web site: Code Green review. www.truthaboutnursing.org.
  24. Web site: UNC Events Briefs -- Jan. 7, 2008 . www.unc.edu . January 17, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081015190948/http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2008/010708.html . October 15, 2008 . dead.
  25. Web site: Book of the Year Awards: The most valuable texts of 2005, as chosen by AJN's panel of judges.. www.nursingcenter.com.
  26. Web site: American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards '08 – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20160420110712/http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2009/03/american-journal-of-nursing-ajn-book-of-the-year-awards-08.html. 2016-04-20.
  27. Web site: Suzanne Gordon – Biography. www.worldcongress.com.

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