Marjory Gordon

Marjory Gordon (Cleveland, November 10, 1931 – Massachusetts, April 29, 2015)[1] was a nursing theorist and professor who created a nursing assessment theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association[2] until 1988.[3] She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing beginning in 1977 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 2009.[4]

Biography

Marjory Gordon began her nursing career in New York at the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Hunter College of the City University of New York and her PhD from Boston College. Dr. Gordon was an emeritus professor of nursing at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She authored four books, including the Manual of Nursing Diagnosis,[5] now in its thirteenth edition. Her books appear in ten different languages, in forty-eight countries and six continents.[6]

She contributed significantly to the development of standardized nursing language. Dr. Gordon's work in this sphere has implications for research, education, evaluation of competency, and the establishment of a core of nursing knowledge based on evidence. This language will also form the basis of the nursing component of the electronic medical record.[7]

Marjory Gordon died on April 29, 2015.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Obituary for Dr. Marjory Gordon | Lehman, Reen, McNamara Funeral Home".
  2. "NANDA International History 1973 to 1979". NANDA. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  3. "NANDA International History 1980 to 1989". NANDA. Archived from the original on 2012-08-06. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  4. "A Living Legend". CSON - Boston College. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  5. "Manual of Nursing Diagnosis, Thirteenth Edition". www.jblearning.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
  6. "Marjory Gordon" (PDF). American Academy of Nursing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  7. Hanink, Elizabeth. "Profiles in Nursing: Marjorie Gordon, Pioneer of the Medical Record". Working Nurse. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
  8. "Obituary: Marjory Gordon of CSON, Pioneer in Nursing Diagnosis". Retrieved 31 May 2018.
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