Collected Item: “Charlene Harrod-Owuamana Oral History, 2022/05/19”
Title
Charlene Harrod-Owuamana
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Charlene Harrod-Owuamana
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#AIDS, #Autism, #advocacy, #author, #Baltimore, #Black, #California, #CDC, #children, #crying, #diabetes, #education, #empathy, #frontline, #grief, #hesitancy, #homelessness, #Maryland, #murder, #myocarditis, #nationalguard, #nonprofit, #nursing, #pediatrics, #Pfizer, #PPE, #police, #prayer, #SanFrancisco, #school, #selfcare, #spirituality, #therapy, #testing, #trust, #vaccination, #WHO
What is the format of your recording?
Video
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Baltimore, Maryland
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
Female
What is the age of the interviewee?
55 to 64
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
African American
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed include:
Growing up in poverty and transitioning into a professional class
That health, wealth, and safety depends on your zip code in the USA
Working as a nurse in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and California
Having run a Baltimore chapter of Black Nurses Rock
Early pandemic anxieties: rioting, medicine shortages, immunocompromised patients
Working in a clinic during the pandemic, and taking on emergency room overflow
Patients ongoing needs for routine procedures during the pandemic
Working in a hospital that had a stockpile of PPE
Hospitals getting information from the CDC before USA media started significant coverage
Care and safety precautions: PPE, fit-testing training, seeing patients outside
Restaurant donations to healthcare providers
Healthcare workers’ vaccine access
Comparisons between the USA’s east coast and west coast feelings about vaccination
Authoring a children’s book about vaccination during the pandemic
School closures
Testing children for COVID in schools; pool-testing; training children to swab themselves
Comforting children who are afraid of needles, afraid of dying from COVID, and afraid of taking COVID home to a family member; educating children; empowering children
Nurses as the most trusted profession within the medical profession
2020: The Year of Nursing, a year of celebration cut short
Depression in nurses; it’s okay to cry/it’s okay not to be okay
Mental health and therapy-stigma among African Americans
Engaging vaccine hesitant African American patients, protecting future generations, building connections through personal experience
Respecting the personal choice of COVID vaccination
The imperfections of COVID statistics
Online socializing
Helping an immunocompromised family member
Baltimore’s murder rate
Starting a non-profit: Nursz’s Hive
Mother died when 15, and helping others grieve their mothers now
Other cultural references: Mozart, American Heart Association, the Kidney Foundation, Dunkin’ Donuts, Zoom, Tesla, Elon Musk, Facebook, Spartan, Swine flu
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ppJDoEsx_0
https://shesthebossradio.com/timetable/event/nurses-lounge/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Magic_Nurse/0dr2zgEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Women_of_Virtue_Walking_in_Excellence_In/s9GEygEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Silent_Epidemic/zYiHzQEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Faith_Over_FEAR/NfypzQEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Feathers_Will_Fall_But/mJ4BwgEACAAJ?hl=en
Growing up in poverty and transitioning into a professional class
That health, wealth, and safety depends on your zip code in the USA
Working as a nurse in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and California
Having run a Baltimore chapter of Black Nurses Rock
Early pandemic anxieties: rioting, medicine shortages, immunocompromised patients
Working in a clinic during the pandemic, and taking on emergency room overflow
Patients ongoing needs for routine procedures during the pandemic
Working in a hospital that had a stockpile of PPE
Hospitals getting information from the CDC before USA media started significant coverage
Care and safety precautions: PPE, fit-testing training, seeing patients outside
Restaurant donations to healthcare providers
Healthcare workers’ vaccine access
Comparisons between the USA’s east coast and west coast feelings about vaccination
Authoring a children’s book about vaccination during the pandemic
School closures
Testing children for COVID in schools; pool-testing; training children to swab themselves
Comforting children who are afraid of needles, afraid of dying from COVID, and afraid of taking COVID home to a family member; educating children; empowering children
Nurses as the most trusted profession within the medical profession
2020: The Year of Nursing, a year of celebration cut short
Depression in nurses; it’s okay to cry/it’s okay not to be okay
Mental health and therapy-stigma among African Americans
Engaging vaccine hesitant African American patients, protecting future generations, building connections through personal experience
Respecting the personal choice of COVID vaccination
The imperfections of COVID statistics
Online socializing
Helping an immunocompromised family member
Baltimore’s murder rate
Starting a non-profit: Nursz’s Hive
Mother died when 15, and helping others grieve their mothers now
Other cultural references: Mozart, American Heart Association, the Kidney Foundation, Dunkin’ Donuts, Zoom, Tesla, Elon Musk, Facebook, Spartan, Swine flu
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ppJDoEsx_0
https://shesthebossradio.com/timetable/event/nurses-lounge/
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Magic_Nurse/0dr2zgEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Women_of_Virtue_Walking_in_Excellence_In/s9GEygEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Silent_Epidemic/zYiHzQEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Faith_Over_FEAR/NfypzQEACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Feathers_Will_Fall_But/mJ4BwgEACAAJ?hl=en
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-05-19T13:38