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Renowned journalist and nursing advocate to speak at YSN's Third Annual presentation of the Creative Writing Award
New Haven, CT — March 27, 2006
On Wednesday, April 26, from 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., the Yale University School of Nursing will host the third annual presentation of the Creative Writing Award, Celebrating the Creative Expression of Graduate Student Nurses. The event will take place at The Quinnipiack Club, 221 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Journalist and nursing advocate, Suzanne Gordon, will be the featured speaker.
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 six books including Life Support:Three Nurses on the Front Lines (Little Brown & Co.); co-editor of three books; 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. 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 an adjunct professor at McGill University School of Nursing and the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. Gordon is co-editor of the Cornell University Press 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.
According to YSN Assistant Professor, Linda Pellico, 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. 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.
All YSN students are encouraged to write an account of what they do so that others will have an opportunity to peer into the world of nursing. The Creative Writing Award program celebrates our students' stories. From over thirty entries, three have been chosen by a distinguished panel of judges as finalists. The panel of judges include: Richard Selzer, surgeon, prolific writer and friend of nursing; Anne Fadiman, writer, essayist, editor and teacher; Echo Heron, nurse, pioneering author and activist; and Donna Diers, former Dean, author and Annie W. Goodrich Professor of Nursing Emerita.
You will be privileged to hear the words of Yale nursing students at this special event. For a few moments they will hold you spellbound and carry you into their world. Their narratives enchant, give meaning to the work and life of a nurse and invites others in for a peek. Please join us!
Honorary Committee
Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan Jennifer Jackson Mary Arnstein Stephanie & Peter Jatlow Sally Bailey Mary Kuncas Mary & Vincent DeVita Diana Mason Donna Diers Lesley Mills Thomas Duffy Richard Selzer Sue Fitzsimmons Howard Spiro Margaret Grey Florence Wald Clara Gyorgyev Joanne Walsh
Take Exit #47 to Route 34, then take Exit #1 (downtown New Haven Exit), turn right on Church Street, go 4.5 blocks (past George Street, Crown Street, Chapel Street and Elm Street). FREE parking is on your left, LOT #4, or on your right, LOT #3 (office building parking lot with free parking in the evening.)
From I-91 (South)
Take Exit #3, go left on Orange Street and continue past Audubon Street, Grove Street and Wall Street. After passing Wall Street, turn right into the THIRD (3rd) driveway on the right, LOT #3, to park. You may also park in LOT #4. To enter the Q Club, walk to Church Street, turn right, enter 1st door.
From Merritt or Wilbur Cross Parkways (North or South)
Take Exit #57 (Route 34 East/New Haven). Continuing on Route 34/Derby Avenue, go through SIX (6) stop lights; you will pass a Nissan dealer,Yale Bowl, and Walter Camp Field. At the 7th traffic light, go straight across Ella Grasso Boulevard; you will now be on George Street. Bear to your right when you get to the first fork in the road; this is still George Street.Keep going straight (under two pedestrian walkways) until you reach Church Street. Take a left on Church Street. Continue on Church Street, crossing Crown Street, Chapel Street (major intersection you will pass a park on your left) and Elm Street. The Q Club is the fourth building on your right. You may park in LOT #3 or LOT #4. (Parking behind the Quinnipiac Club is reserved for registered hotel guests only.)
Parking
We suggest that you do not use a parking garage, since they close early
