Abigail Ungaro

I currently work as a Registered Nurse at the Forensic Hospital where I specialise in mental health on the acute men's admission ward. I have worked full time in this role for three years with the last two years being on the acute men's admission ward and the other year being my rotational year where I also worked in the rehabilitation unit and in the acute mental health unit at Long Bay Hospital.

In my current role I utilise a wide variety of skills which I believe make my candidacy relevant such as using critical thinking and triage skills to manage consumer's needs, experience in numerous emergency incidents where either medical intervention or de-escalation skills were needed, the ability to engage with a varied demographic with different mental health or physical diagnoses as well as linguistic diversity or religious/cultural needs, and the experience working as a shift coordinator in which I was in charge of emergency incidents.

I also have experience in nursing specific clinical skills including administering CPR and I am currently a Basic Life Support Trainer and Assessor in my current role.

During my time studying my Bachelor of Nursing I worked in prince of Wales Hospital as a Assistant in Nursing. During this time I further expanded my experience in treating a wide variety of patients including elderly patients and children. I also worked in this role during the COVID pandemic and was able to gain unique experience whereby I was worked in conditions where the hospital was understaffed and I had to perform duties which were not usually expected in my role.

Furthermore, as an Assistant in nursing I tended to patient's various needs which were not clinical such as providing food, making beds, providing toileting and showering assistance, mobilising patients with disabilities and answering call bells to attend to various other needs.