Haney, Dona Harton

Wright, Christina

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2017-05-24

1 audio file (1:08:13) : Digital, MP3

Audio

spoken word

eng

Dona Haney was a 70-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place at Plantation Estates in Matthews, North Carolina. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1946. She was educated at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she earned her B.S. and M.S. in Nursing; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a Certificate in Nursing Education; and the University of Indiana, where she earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Online Education. She was employed as a nurse and director of quality management at Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Infection Control nurse at the Carolinas Medical Center Mercy Hospital, and faculty member at the Mercy School of Nursing.

UNC Charlotte School of Nursing alumna, Dona Haney, describes her experiences at Mercy Hospital where she was the infection control nurse during the HIV AIDS epidemic. Topics discussed include the lack of anticipation of the disease by the local medical community; her responsibility for establishing protocols for infection control following guidelines from the CDC; heightened fear and anxiety among hospital staff and how she handled this; the patient-focused approach to nursing at Mercy Hospital that was modelled by the Sisters of Mercy, in particular Sister Therese Galligan; the first diagnosed person with AIDS in Charlotte, who was one of Ms. Haney's patients; stigma surrounding the disease and how that changed over time; societal changes engendered by AIDS including more open discussion of sex and homosexuality; frequently changing protocols with respect to testing for HIV AIDS and confidentiality guidelines and the implications of this; the work of the Metrolina AIDS Project (MAP) and the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) in Charlotte; the role of HIV AIDS in bringing the local gay community into the public realm to fight for civil rights.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV production master file. Interview originally recorded on a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder.

Haney, Dona Harton

Sisters of Mercy

Nurses
AIDS (Disease)
Gay men
Homophobia
AIDS (Disease)--Patients
Infection--Control
AIDS phobia

North Carolina--Charlotte

Oral histories
Interviews

1980-2020

Charlotte LGBTQ+ oral histories

This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

audio/mpeg

Joseph G. Jemsek oral history interview, 2017 January 25, (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/object/pid/uncc:2312/parentPID/un... ) J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Ann Mabe Newman, Dona Harton Haney, and nursing colleagues oral history interview, 2017 June 6, (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/object/pid/uncc:2584/parentPID/un... ) J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

QH-HA0039

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2329