Marjory Gordon
Marjory Gordon (Cleveland, November 10, 1931 – Massachusetts, April 29, 2015){{Cite web|url=https://www.lehmanreen.com/notices/DrMarjory-Gordon|title=Obituary for Dr. Marjory Gordon | Lehman, Reen, McNamara Funeral Home}} 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{{cite web|url=http://www.nanda.org/AboutUs/History/1973to1979.aspx|title=NANDA International History 1973 to 1979|publisher=NANDA|accessdate=6 November 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208081610/http://www.nanda.org/AboutUs/History/1973to1979.aspx|archivedate=8 December 2012}} until 1988.{{cite web|url=http://www.nanda.org/AboutUs/History/1980to1989.aspx|title=NANDA International History 1980 to 1989|publisher=NANDA|accessdate=6 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806003401/http://www.nanda.org/AboutUs/History/1980to1989.aspx|archive-date=2012-08-06|url-status=dead}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bc.edu/schools/son/aboutus/news-landing/2009/gordon_livinglegend.html|title=A Living Legend|publisher=CSON - Boston College|accessdate=2 December 2010}}
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,{{Cite web|title = Manual of Nursing Diagnosis, Thirteenth Edition|url = http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781284044430/|website = www.jblearning.com|accessdate = 2015-10-27|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180720111635/http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781284044430/|archive-date = 2018-07-20|url-status = dead}} which appears in ten different languages, in forty-eight countries and six continents.{{cite web|url=http://www.aannet.org/files/public/Gordon_LL_2009.pdf|title=Marjory Gordon|publisher=American Academy of Nursing|accessdate=2 December 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125541/http://www.aannet.org/files/public/Gordon_LL_2009.pdf|archivedate=17 July 2011}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.workingnurse.com/articles/Profiles-in-Nursing-Marjorie-Gordon-Pioneer-of-the-Medical-Record|title=Profiles in Nursing: Marjorie Gordon, Pioneer of the Medical Record|last=Hanink|first=Elizabeth|publisher=Working Nurse|accessdate=2 December 2010}}
Marjory Gordon died on April 29, 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.bc.edu/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2015/news/obituary--marjory-gordon-of-cson--pioneer-in-nursing-diagnosis.html|title=Obituary: Marjory Gordon of CSON, Pioneer in Nursing Diagnosis|accessdate=31 May 2018}}
See also
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727201116/http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodical/OJI List of articles by Gordon in Nursing World]
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