2009 Nightingale Lecture Features Award-Winning Journalist Suzanne Gordon on Nov. 23
The Saint Joseph College Department of Nursing in collaboration with The Honor Society of Nursing - Sigma Theta Tau International (Iota Upsilon Chapter at large) will present the Nightingale Lecture featuring Suzanne Gordon, award-winning journalist and author. Her upcoming lecture is entitled, “Chicken Soup Isn’t Enough: Strategies to Advance Professional Needs and Quality Patient Care.” Join us on Monday, November 23 at 7:00 p.m. in The Bruyette Athenaeum’s Hoffman Auditorium located on the College’s West Hartford campus. Refreshments and a book signing will follow the presentation; admission is free of charge and the community is cordially invited to attend. For more information, contact Jody Chouinard, office manager in the department of Nursing, at 860.231.5253 or jchouinard@sjc.edu.
Currently serving as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Nursing, Suzanne Gordon has written over 350 articles for major national magazines and newspapers. For over 20 years, she has observed nurses and other caregivers in hospitals and health care institutions across the country, writing on the topics of care giving and health care reform. The author of six books, Ms. Gordon’s latest title is Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care, written with John Buchanan and Tanya Bretherton (Cornell University Press, 2008). Ms. Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and did graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University.
