Interview with Sherry Day
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- Date Range
- January 3 - 7, 2022
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Two-part interview with Sherry Day, a Smithers nurse and guide-outfitter. Recorded by Sonja Lester for the Bulkley Valley Museum on January 3rd and 7th 2022 as part of the New Horizons for Seniors oral history project. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, .MP3 access files, and a .pdf release form.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Sonja Lester
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.86
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 1.01 GB digital records
- Date Range
- January 3 - 7, 2022
- Scope and Content
- Two-part interview with Sherry Day, a Smithers nurse and guide-outfitter. Recorded by Sonja Lester for the Bulkley Valley Museum on January 3rd and 7th 2022 as part of the New Horizons for Seniors oral history project. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, .MP3 access files, and a .pdf release form.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Sherry Day, part 1 - January 3, 2022
Interview with Sherry Day, part 1 - January 3, 2022
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.86_Day,%20Sherry/Day,%20Sherry%202022_01_03.ACCESS.mp3
Sherry Day gives an outline of her background in the nursing field, including where she has studied and worked.
Minneapolis, Minnesota; nursing degree; nursing instructor; Oslo, Norway; Saskatoon; University of Saskatchewan
nursing; nursing education; nursing school
Day recounts why she and her first husband (Dr. Brian Reive) moved to Smithers, and how she became a nurse at the Bulkley Valley District Hospital. She identifies the departments in which she worked, names some of her coworkers, and discusses the effects of the Sisters of Saint Anne leaving the hospital and the transition from the 'old' building to the 'new.'
Birgit David; Christine Kapelar; Dr. Brian Reive; Jean MacDonald; Kate Lindbergh; Louise Watson; Margaret Goodacre; Mary Goodacre; medicine; midwives; moving; Mrs. Eby; pediatrics; Ron Olson; Sisters of Saint Anne; surgery; veterinarian
Bulkley Valley District Hospital; nurses; nursing; Smithers
Day briefly discusses working at a surgical daycare after her retirement.
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retirement; surgical daycare
Day discusses the camaraderie that developed between her and her fellow nurses-in-training at the University of Saskatoon.
class reunions; education; nurses' residence; Saskatoon
companionship; friendships; medical community; nurses
Day discusses working in the guide-outfitting industry alongside her second husband, Fletcher Day.
horses; hunting; Jenny Lester; Tahltan; Telegraph Creek; trailing
Fletcher Day; guide-outfitters; guide-outfitting; working
Day discusses her lifelong love of horses and dogs.
dog shows; Karen Stewart; Lakes District Kennel Club; shelties; shetland sheepdogs
animals; dogs; horses; pets
Day talks about how she would accompany patients being medically evacuated from Smithers by helicopter.
air ambulance; aircraft; med-evacs; medical evacuation; medivacs
health care
Day discusses changes to local health care since she first started nursing in Smithers, such as the reduced quality of in-hospital meals and the prepackaging of medications.
cafeteria; decentralization; food services; hospital meals; medications; Northern Health; pharmacist; pharmacy
Bulkley Valley District Hospital; health care
Closing of part 1 of the interview with Sherry Day.
yoga
Interview with Sherry Day, part 2 - January 7, 2022
Interview with Sherry Day, part 2 - January 7, 2022
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.86_Day,%20Sherry/Day,%20Sherry%202022_01_07.ACCESS.mp3
Day discusses ways in which the hospital has changed since she started working there in 1973, such as getting a qualified pharmacist and improved cancer treatment.
cancer treatment; cancer ward; chemotherapy; Jean MacDonald; Lynn Shervill; medications; Norma John; pharmacist; pharmacy; Prince George
Bulkley Valley District Hospital; cancer; health care; nurses
Day speaks about the development of the hospital's palliative care services.
health care; hospice care; palliative care
Day speaks about the Hospital Auxiliary's role in raising money for the hospital.
donations; medical equipment
Hospital Auxiliary; New to You
Day talks about the hospital's commitment to continuing education amongst its staff and medical students, and how loss of funding has made this more difficult.
administration course; College of New Caledonia; funding; medical students; Myrtle McIntyre; nurses; practical experience; specialty courses; student practitioners; visiting lecturers
Bulkley Valley District Hospital; continuing education; medical training
Day discusses her involvement with the BC Nurses' Union, and elaborates on the difference between its mandate and that of the Registered Nurses' Association.
BC Nurses' Union; court ruling; Labour Relations Division; mandates; Registered Nurses' Association; Saskatchewan Union of Nurses
nurses' union; unions
Day discusses how Smithers is losing its medical services and specialists (largely to Terrace) as a result of centralization.
hospital administration; hospital leadership; hospitals; ICU; Intensive Care Unit; internal medicine; lab services; mental health care; psychiatric unit; safe room; Terrace
centralization; loss of services; loss of specialists
A brief discussion of the Hospital's maternity ward before the interview concludes.
birth; midwives; nurses; remodelling
Bulkley Valley District Hospital; maternity ward