October 15 — “The Ethics of Teamwork” in healthcare
No one knows about the importance of teamwork better than nurses … and these days they often feel as though their team is asking more while abandoning their interests. We all should be able to learn something the country’s foremost -nurse journalist.
When: Wednesday October 15, noon
Where: Methodist Hospital Petticrew Auditorium
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics has provided the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series since 2005 as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
The speaker is Suzanne Gordon:
Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author. She 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 others. She’s the author of seven books including Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines, which has just been reissued by Cornell University Press with a new forward by Claire Fagin and epilogue by the author; and co-editor of three books and co-author of From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public. Her book on the nursing crisis –Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care — is out in paperback published by Cornell University Press as part of its series on The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. Her recent book, co-edited with Sioban Nelson, is Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered, also by Cornell University Press. Her latest book, Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care was published by CUP in April 2008.
She has been a health care commentator in the U.S. for Public Radio International’s “Marketplace” business program, and a popular lecturer. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Assistant, Adjunct Professor at the University of California San Francisco’s School of Nursing. Gordon is co-editor of Cornell University Press’s series on the Culture and Politics of Health Care Work. She is also co-author, with playwright Lisa Hayes of the new play about doctor/nurse relationships entitled Bedside Manners.
Why does Provocate think you should attend this event?
Too often in the discussions of how to deal with the healthcare crisis, the perspective of nurses is neglected. Bring it back.
If you think this sounds interesting, be sure to check out …
October 2 when Nancy Snyderman explores “Medical Myths That Can Kill You”; November 7 for a discussion of “Religious Activism and Health Care Reform in Massachusetts”; Watch the AIDS film “Angels in America” November 23 and December 5.
And for your listening pleasure …
