Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes materials outside of Gordon's scholarly output but which document her education and career: awards, transcripts, many drafts of her curriculum vitae with supporting documents, and articles about her work. Also contains a smaller amount of documents of her personal life: autograph albums, diaries, high school and college ephemera, and papers documenting her mother Margaret Doran Gordon's education in Scottland and teaching career in the United States.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Recordings and digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes materials outside of Gordon's scholarly output but which document her education and career: awards, transcripts, many drafts of her curriculum vitae with supporting documents, and articles about her work. Also contains a smaller amount of documents of her personal life: autograph albums, diaries, high school and college ephemera, and papers documenting her mother Margaret Doran Gordon's education in Scottland and teaching career in the United States.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Recordings and digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Scope and Contents

Materials primarily document the education, in Scottland and New York, and career as a teacher of Gordon's mother Margaret.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Recordings and digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Scope and Contents

The bulk of Gordon's correspondence is professional, relating primarily to her expertise with nursing diagnosis. A much smaller amount is from friends and family, including her mother's relatives in Great Britain.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Recordings and digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Marjory Gordon papers document her career as a nurse educator and as a key figure in the development of nursing diagnosis, particularly through her creation of the Functional Health Patterns (FHP). Her papers comprehensively cover her doctoral studies, professional research, publications, and contribution to national and international conferences. To a lesser extent her papers also document her high school and college years and a glimpse of her relationships with friends and relatives....

Restrictions on Access

Box 14 folder 7 contains publishing contracts that are closed until 2055.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials documenting Gordon's service on professional nursing organizations. Note that her work with the American Nurses' Association as NANDA's representative and her work as NANDA's president are in the NANDA International records (MS.1998.006). Her service on NANDA's Diagnosis Review Committee and Executive Board, which post-date her term as president, are included here.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Recordings and digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.