Gordon served in 1973 as the first president of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association[2] until 1988.
[3] She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing beginning in 1977 and was designated a Living Legend by the same organization in 2009.
Dr. Gordon was an emeritus professor of nursing at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
She authored four books, including the Manual of Nursing Diagnosis,[5] which appears in ten different languages, in forty-eight countries and six continents.
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.