Doris Grinspun head of the RNAO just sent me this article about the firing of a Chief Nurse who spoke out to protect patients. Any Canadian nurse reading this should […]
This was just posted on the BMJ blog. Hope people will read and pass it on. The BMJ Suzanne Gordon: The future of the Veteran’s Health Administration 29 Apr, 16 […]
My new blogpost was just posted on the BMJ (British Medical Journal). Would love to know people’s response. Suzanne Gordon: Does the use of medical titles have an impact […]
This blogpost is an excerpt of a chapter I wrote in Collaborative Caring: Stories and Reflections on Teamwork in Health Care. a book I co-edited with David L. Feldman […]
On May 28, Alexandra R0bbins wrote an Oped for the New York Times entitled “We Need More Nurses.” Robbins has written a book exploring and promoting the work that nurses […]
The other day, I was invited to give a seminar on interprofessional teamwork to a group of residents at a prestigious university medical center. . The group to whom I […]
You can have discussions about patient safety in some of the oddest places, like the breakfast room in a hotel in Munich. My husband and I are here in this […]
This past week, I spent two and a half days at a conference put on by the Lown Institute on Right Care in healthcare. The Lown Institute was started by […]
Contemporary medicine is obsessed with failure. Look anywhere, or everywhere and the word “fail” keeps cropping up. The word is almost always associated with personal blame and thus with personal [...]
Another dispatch from the front lines of patient safety. Several weeks ago, I spoke at a teaching hospital about the difficulties that medical staff encounter when they try to protect […]