COVID-19: Share Your Story

Nurses are critical to successfully combating COVID-19. Archive your story with the Barbara Bates Center to ensure that future researchers know the important role nurses played during this pandemic.

We want to ensure nurses’ voices are heard and captured. We are seeking to hear from the spectrum of nurses’ experiences, whether in research, practice, or teaching during this time.

Submit your story to the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. The Center will preserve your story for future use by researchers. Submit your response via our survey - COVID-19: Share Your Experience.

Some examples of items that could be included are:

a sign or art you or someone else in your community created
screen shots of your social media posts
your own journal entries (written, audio, or video) documenting your experience

Please contact the Center at nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu if you would like to submit your story by video, larger photos, or other format.

Need some guidance on how to get started? Take a look at these questions.

Interested in donating your COVID-19 related materials?

This can include diaries, blogs, notes, and other items. Please contact the Center at nhistory@nursing.upenn.edu .

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Terms and Conditions

You are being asked to contribute your recollections, photographic images, video, social media postings or other digital content to the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, which is creating a digital record of the COVID-19 pandemic.

You may only submit material created entirely by you and not copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material , except to the extent that such material is in the public domain, or you have permission of the copyright owner, or its use is allowed by “Fair Use” as prescribed by the terms of United States copyright law.

You must be 18 years of age or older to submit material. By submitting content through this form, you are granting the Center permission to disseminate, preserve, and use that content in connection with its educational and research mission, including promotional purposes, in all media in perpetuity. You retain ownership of and copyright in the material you share.

If you indicate on the form that your submission is “public,” your material may be published on the web (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated) as part of our digital collections or exhibits. Otherwise, your material will only be available per Bates Center guidelines.

Submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws.

The Center is not obligated to include your content in this project or preserve it in perpetuity. Decisions to decline submissions will adhere to the guidelines of the institution’s/collection’s collecting policy and deaccession policy.

Bates Center

COVID-19: Share Your Story

We want to ensure nurses’ voices are heard and captured. We are seeking to hear from the spectrum of nurses’ experiences, whether in research, practice, or teaching during this time.

Need some guidance on how to get started? Take a look at these questions.

Subscribe to Share Your COVID-19 Story

Interested in donating your COVID-19 related materials?