Suzanne Gordon

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety

Excerpt] This book is an exploration of why patient safety is advancing at what seems to be an almost glacial pace, despite the often vast and determined efforts of health care workers and managers. A collection of essays from prominent researchers, scholars, and even patients, this book aims to identify some of the gaps in the patient safety movement, the disconnected dots that do not coalesce despite decades of hard work and billions of dollars. It also identifies concerns that have not been integrated into the patient safety discourse or agenda of more established groups.

WHATʼS IN A NAME

In this article, issues of virus naming as they impact users will be discussed, and some of the ways that naming might affect the reviewing of products will be examined.

The tapestry of care.

Abstract For three years, journalist Suzanne Gordon observed three nurses-Nancy Rumplik, a nurse in the Hematology/Oncology Outpatient Clinic, Jeannie Chaisson, a medical clinical nurse specialist on a general medical unit; and Ellen Kitchen, a geriatric nurse practitioner in home care—at a Boston teaching hospital. Using their experiences with patients, nurses, physicians, and other colleagues as a prism to look at nursing practice, history, nurse-physician relationships, and nursings future, Gordon has written LifeSupport: Three Nurses on the Frontlines. This book is an attempt to show the American public the importance of nursing practice. In todays health care climate, where cost cutting is directly targeting caregiving, it argues that nurses are a precious resource we must preserve and defend. This excerpt is from LifeSupport. ∗ ∗From Life Support: Three Nurses on the Frontlinesby Suzanne Gordon, with an introduction by Claire M. Fagin, RN, PhD, FAAN, ©1997. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown & Company. Available at your local bookstore, or to order a copy call 1-

The abandonment of the patient

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Sounding the alarm.

From the combination of knowledge and actions, someone can improve their skill and ability. It will lead them to live and work much better. This is why, the students, workers, or even employers should have reading habit for books. Any book will give certain knowledge to take all benefits. This is what this abandonment of the patient tells you. It will add more knowledge of you to life and work better. Try it and prove it.

From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

Nurses need to continue broadcasting the dangers of shrinking RN-to- patient ratios. Heres some advice on how to do it convincingly.