stories about their nursing experiences
Journalist and nursing advocate Suzanne Gordon will be the featured speaker during the School of Nursing's (YSN) third annual presentation of its Creative Writing Award, which celebrates the written stories of Yale student nurses.
The event, titled "Celebrating the Creative Expression of Graduate Student Nurses," will take place on Wednesday, April 26, 5:30-8 p.m., at The Quinnipiack Club, 221 Church St. Members of the Yale community and general public are welcome to attend; there is a $50 donation.
The three winning entries for the Creative Writing Award will be announced at the event. They were chosen from 30 entries by a panel of judges that included surgeon and writer Richard Selzer; Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale and professor (adjunct) of English; nurse, author and activist Echo Heron; and former YSN dean Donna Diers, the Annie W. Goodrich Professor of Nursing Emerita.
All YSN students are encouraged to write an account of what they do so that others will have the opportunity to peer into the world of nursing.
"As nurses, we know that our work is significant, but our inability to articulate the extraordinary privilege and power of nursing has been an important factor in the current nursing shortage," explains Linda Pellico, an assistant professor of nursing. "It is no longer acceptable to know our own worth and not attempt to articulate what it is that we do, see, feel and provide to our patients, families and communities. It is time for nursing to find its voice and speak it in every forum possible."
Featured speaker Gordon has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and other publications. She is the author of six books, including "Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines," and co-author of "From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public." Her most recent book, "Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care," won three 2005 Book of the Year Awards from the American Journal of Nursing and a Golden Lamp Award from the Center for Nursing Advocacy. Gordon is also co-editor of three books.
Gordon has been a health care commentator in the United States for Public Radio International's "Marketplace" business program, and is a popular lecturer. She is an adjunct professor at McGill University School of Nursing and at the nursing school of the University of California, San Francisco. She is co-editor of the Cornell University Press series on the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work and is the co-author, with playwright Lisa Hayes, of a new play about doctor/nurse relationships titled "Bedside Manners."
For more information about the event or to register, send e-mail to sheryl.soltysik@yale.edu.
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