COVID-19 in Mesa County
Mesa County Oral History Project ➔ Oral History with Holly "Sonny" Shelton
Oral History -- Audio recording
Identifier:
2022.59.1Description
Sonny Shelton, a psychiatric home healthcare nurse, talks about the COVID-19 pandemic, and her work and life during that time. She also references the AIDS epidemic, and how it was different.pandemic, patients, nursing, home, regulation, teaching, work, policies, personal protective equipment, care, medical, information, masks, procedures, disease, infection control
Summary
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How the pandemic affected Sonny’s professional and personal life. 0:00
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What were the challenges during the pandemic? 3:51
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Nurses became completely exhausted. Many nurses left the industry. 9:16
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Nursing is not just a profession. 14:06
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How the AIDS epidemic interfered with nurses’ ability to take care of the dying. 19:15
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What is peer-review? 28:20
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Is overregulation a burden to the medical industry? 34:17
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Taking care of others is what we’re supposed to do. 46:23
Content Date:
2019 – 2022Interview Date:
September 27 2022Related collections
Mesa County Oral History Project The Mesa County Oral History Project began as a joint project of the Museums of Western Colorado and Mesa County Libraries (MCL) in 1975.What IS Oral History?
An oral history is an audio or video recording of a person speaking about their personal, lived experience of historical events.
Note that in some cases, the same OH numb...
COVID-19 in Mesa County Materials collected that relate to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mesa County.
This collections includes artifacts and oral histories.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Related person
Holly "Sonny" Shelton (narrator)Related place
Grand Junction (references)(references)