In the first session, Leonie Campbell talks about her youth in Jamaica, education, and arrival in the United States. She discusses her initial impressions of COVID-19 as a nurse at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She describes a moment in which she felt panic and fear for the first time in her career when a man almost died in front of her. She comments on the death of George Floyd and compares race relations in the United States and Jamaica. She comments on the practical aspects protecting herself and others from COVID the and psychological aspects employing social distancing. In the second session, Campbell gives updates on her family and working conditions. She describes her experience getting COVID-19. She describes conversations around masking and the start of the vaccination effort. She is optimistic about the number of people being role models for to get inoculated
Nurses; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Jamaican Americans; Black lives matter movement; COVID-19 vaccines; Social distancing (Public health); United States Emigration and immigration; United States Race relations 21st century; Campbell, Leonie, 1969; Presbyterian Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
57 pages
Note (Biographical)
Leonie (Lee) Campbell has worked at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as a registered nurse since the early 2000s. Campbell has worked in the endoscopy, recovery room, and medical surgical units and, at the time of the interview, was working as a cardiac step-down nurse. She is also the chairperson of the Night Staff Advisory Council
Note
Interviewed by Jennifer Dohrn on June 18 and December 17, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Lee Campbell, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023