Marjory Gordon (

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, November 10, 1931 –

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, April 29, 2015) was a

nursing Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...

theorist and

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who created a

nursing assessment Nursing assessment is the gathering of information about a patient's physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status by a licensed Registered Nurse. Nursing assessment is the first step in the nursing process. A section of the nu ...

theory known as Gordon's functional health patterns. Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association until 1988. She was a Fellow of the

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beginning in 1977 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 2009.

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

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in Chestnut Hill,

. She authored four books, including the ''Manual of Nursing Diagnosis'', which appears in ten different languages, in forty-eight countries and six continents. 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. Marjory Gordon died on April 29, 2015.

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List of articles by Gordon in Nursing World
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