Changing the Odds for Nurses:
Creating Healthy Work Environments
The Virginia Lee Franklin Dean’s Lecture presented by
Suzanne Gordon, BA
Award Winning Journalist, Author most recently of Nursing Against the Odds, Adjunct Professor at University California at San Francisco and McGill University
Dean Janet Allan is pleased to offer this dynamic lecture to celebrate the opening of the School of Nursing’s Center of Excellence in Occupational and Environmental Health and Justice. Ms. Gordon will discuss the challenges industrialized societies face retaining and recruiting nurses and describe why nurses must find their collective “voice” and fully enter into current conversations about health care and workforce issues.
Location: University of Maryland School of Nursing Auditorium
Fee: $40 for each lecture
CE: 1.8 Contact Hours for each Fall Lecture
Please plan to join us for a reception immediately following each lecture
Registration is Required
For more information call the Office of Professional and Continuing Education
at 410-706-3767
About Suzanne Gordon
Suzanne Gordon has been a freelance journalist and author since 1970. Ms. Gordon writes about political culture, women’s issues, nursing, and health care. She is the author of six books, most recently, Nursing Against the Odds: How Healthcare Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Undermine Nursing and Patient Care (see additional information below). She is also the co-editor of three other books, and co-author, with Bernice Buresh, of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Must Communicate to the Public. From Silence to Voice won a best book of the year award in 2000 from The American Journal of Nursing. Over the past 26 years, Ms. Gordon has written over 300 articles for major national magazines and newspapers. For the past 15 years, she has been observing nurses and other caregivers in hospitals and health care institutions across the country and writing about care giving and health care reform issues. Ms. Gordon was a health care commentator for Public Radio’s Marketplace. She is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing; a Visiting Scholar at the Boston College School of Nursing; and was an Adjunct Professor at the McGill University School of Nursing. She is also an editorial board member of The American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Inquiry, and Clinical Excellence for Nurse Practitioners. She served as a member of the National Advisory Committee on the Nursing Shortage for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
About the New Book
In the US and other advanced countries, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Whay are so many RNs dropping out of health care’s largest profession? How will patients be affected by the lack of skilled, experienced care givers?
These are the questions addressed in Suzanne Gordon’s definitive account of the world’s nursing crisis. Nursing Against The Odds draws on in-depth interviews, research studies, and extensive first-hand reporting to help readers better understand the myriad causes of the current crisis—and what can be done about it.
This book will be sold through the registration process at a discounted price to attendees of Ms. Gordon's lecture at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. She will be available after the lecture for a book signing.