(1946-07-05) July 5, 1946 (age 77) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
Pilot
attorney
aviation and healthcare safety analyst
author
Genre
Aviation-based novels, non-fiction
Notable works
Pandora's Clock, Medusa's Child, Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care, Charting the Course: Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare
Nance is also a
New York Times best-selling author. Two of Nance's books, Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child, were adapted and broadcast as a four-hour television miniseries for NBC and ABC.[5]
Nance is the author of Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care and Charting the Course: Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare. These books apply the principles learned in aviation to healthcare and patient safety.[6][7]
Nance is the originator of the Red Cover Reports, a series of accident and incident analyses and recommendations using the principles of the
National Transportation Safety Board accident reports colloquially known as "Blue Covers".[8][9] The Red Cover Reports provide a neutral source of in-depth analysis of healthcare harm to caregivers and patients, including the 440,000 deaths due to medical error.[10]
Also, as a former
Braniff Airlines pilot, Nance authored A Splash of Colors: The Self-Destruction of Braniff International.[11]
As of 2022, he has appeared on 18 episodes of Mayday as an aviation expert.[12]
^Nance, John J. (2008). Why hospitals should fly : the ultimate flight plan to patient safety and quality care (Fourth Printing August 2011. ed.). Bozeman, Mt.: Second River Healthcare Press.
ISBN978-0974386065.
^Bartholomew, John J. Nance, Kathleen M. (2012). Charting the course : launching patient-centric healthcare. Bozeman, Montana: Second River.
ISBN978-1936406128.{{
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