Digitizing South Asian Nurses Stories

Project Title	Digitizing South Asian Nurses Stories
Principal Investigator	Lydia Wytenbroek
Faculty	Applied Science
Funding Year	2023
Project Summary	The goal is to develop subject transcriptions and learning resource materials (critical guiding questions and lesson planning guides) to accompany a set of oral interviews with South Asian Nurses in British Columbia and deposited in UBC Open Collections. I am currently PI on a South Asian Nurses Oral History Project, in which we interviewed 20 South Asian nurses in British Columbia about their experiences as student and practicing nurses, as well as their family backgrounds and engagement with community. We audio recorded these interviews and the participants agreed to have the recording uploaded to UBC Open Collections where they will be publicly availably (as recordings). This proposal is for funding to hire two undergraduate nursing students who would be able to provide a subject transcript for each recording. This would not be a complete transcription, but would time catalogue the interviews by key subjects (education, family, upbringing, racism, practice in hospital, etc.). The students would also develop a learning resource under my guidance with critical guiding questions and self-reflective questions so that the interviews could be used in a more effective way for teaching purposes in the classroom. The subject transcript and learning resource would also be publicly available with the interviews on Open Collections. I then plan to use these interviews in my NURS 300 Foundations course which addresses the history of nursing. We also anticipate these could be used by museums and in primary and secondary classrooms in BC.
Grant type	OER Rapid Innovation
Funded Amount	$2,000