Collected Item: “Setoria James Oral History, 2022/07/18”
Title
Setoria James
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Setoria James
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?
#Alzeimers, #birthdays, #Black, #cancer, #dementia, #empathy, #family, #Fauci, #friendship, #geriatrics, #highschool, #hope, #Jackson, #lostgraduations, #MERCA, #Mississippi, #motherhood, #nurse, #PPE, #publichealth, #seniors, #testing
What is the format of your recording?
Audio
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.
Clinton, Mississippi
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?
35 to 44
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:
Working on an ontology unit in a hospital as a master’s prepared nurse.
Being the President of Black Nurses Rock Mississippi chapter.
Black Nurses Rock no longer able to host events for the community–health fairs, donating services to the homeless–and face-to-face chapter meetings.
Nurses supporting other nurses.
Working in a geriatric unit at the beginning of the pandemic, many patients had dementia and Alzeihmer’s.
The special needs of patients with short-term memory disorders during the pandemic and the impact of isolation on them.
Changes in patients’ everyday activities: stopping visitations, single rooms, no collective dining, closing the activities room.
Creating individualized activities.
New safety procedures for incoming patients.
Teaching patients with memory problems cleaning techniques.
Being able to go home to see loved ones while watching patients who didn’t have that same option.
Softening safety restrictions as time went on; delighting in patients’ happiness when they could see family again.
First hearing about COVID impacting northern states and not worrying that it would travel south.
Hospital shifting policies on masks, worries about public perception.
Policy ignoring concerns about exposure to other diseases in the clinic, such as MERCA, after COVID.
Limited access to PPE.
Celebrating birthdays pre-pandemic and during the pandemic.
Mississippi state regulations, public resistance to mask wearing.
Family in healthcare.
Testing policies as work, feeling privileged for access; testing coworkers.
Son in highschool moving from in person to online lessons; difficulty helping son with homework because of differences in education across generations.
Son unable to go to prom, to get a senior portrait or to have a graduation ceremony.
Volunteering at vaccination drives sponsored by churches and integrating other public health services.
Video chatting; new etiquettes about reaching out to friends.
Recently beginning to see friends face to face.
Having even less access to groceries because of the hours working.
Hearing about the assault of other nurses who were out in public (for example: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/health-workers-once-saluted-as-heroes-now-get-threats).
Becoming a nurse because of the kindness of nurses during childhood.
The importance of funding research for diseases in order to eradicate them.
Going to the gym, nervousness about comorbidities and nervousness about risks in a gym.
The importance of public humanities and engaging the public.
See also:
https://blacknursesrock.net
Working on an ontology unit in a hospital as a master’s prepared nurse.
Being the President of Black Nurses Rock Mississippi chapter.
Black Nurses Rock no longer able to host events for the community–health fairs, donating services to the homeless–and face-to-face chapter meetings.
Nurses supporting other nurses.
Working in a geriatric unit at the beginning of the pandemic, many patients had dementia and Alzeihmer’s.
The special needs of patients with short-term memory disorders during the pandemic and the impact of isolation on them.
Changes in patients’ everyday activities: stopping visitations, single rooms, no collective dining, closing the activities room.
Creating individualized activities.
New safety procedures for incoming patients.
Teaching patients with memory problems cleaning techniques.
Being able to go home to see loved ones while watching patients who didn’t have that same option.
Softening safety restrictions as time went on; delighting in patients’ happiness when they could see family again.
First hearing about COVID impacting northern states and not worrying that it would travel south.
Hospital shifting policies on masks, worries about public perception.
Policy ignoring concerns about exposure to other diseases in the clinic, such as MERCA, after COVID.
Limited access to PPE.
Celebrating birthdays pre-pandemic and during the pandemic.
Mississippi state regulations, public resistance to mask wearing.
Family in healthcare.
Testing policies as work, feeling privileged for access; testing coworkers.
Son in highschool moving from in person to online lessons; difficulty helping son with homework because of differences in education across generations.
Son unable to go to prom, to get a senior portrait or to have a graduation ceremony.
Volunteering at vaccination drives sponsored by churches and integrating other public health services.
Video chatting; new etiquettes about reaching out to friends.
Recently beginning to see friends face to face.
Having even less access to groceries because of the hours working.
Hearing about the assault of other nurses who were out in public (for example: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/health-workers-once-saluted-as-heroes-now-get-threats).
Becoming a nurse because of the kindness of nurses during childhood.
The importance of funding research for diseases in order to eradicate them.
Going to the gym, nervousness about comorbidities and nervousness about risks in a gym.
The importance of public humanities and engaging the public.
See also:
https://blacknursesrock.net
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-07-18T14:57