Gordon is also a strong advocate for a single payer health care system, and the founder of Nurses for National Health Care, which is advocating for a national health care system. Three Nurses on the Frontlines, which was published by Little, Brown in 1997. The following is an interview with Gordon giving her views on why nurses should support this approach.
Good nurses can only give good nursing care if there are societal supports for that nursing.
Nursing practice is not solely an individual attribute. It s a collective activity that depends on the education of the nurse, on the institutions willingness to support the nurse, and on the society s willingness to support the institutions the nurse is working in and with. The market approach also devalues care. If you value wealth over health, you are not going to value the sick, vulnerable, aging, and dying. These are people who are never going to be competitive and productive as the market defines those terms.