• Title
  File 004: Frances Cavallaro interview by Dr Gregory de Moore
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  4 May 2023
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9682691
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (37 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Frances Cavallaro, enrolled nurse and union representative, works in the Assessment Centre at Cumberland Hospital. Frances recalls her experiences working in the Assessment Centre during COVID-19. The Assessment Centre is the main reception area at Cumberland Hospital for new patients – some of these are known patients being transferred from other hospitals; others are ‘walk-ins off the street’ who are unknown to the hospital and who may be very disturbed in mind and behaviour. During COVID-19 all such presentations were regulated, and attempts made to keep patients physically separate in the Assessment Centre because of the infective nature of COVID-19. Frances recalls the distress of her initial contact with a COVID-positive patient, and what it might have meant for her own health. She recounts the recurrent traumatic thoughts she still has several years after the COVID pandemic started.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Cumberland Hospital, 4 May 2023
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Cavallaro, Frances
  
• Subject
  Cavallaro, Frances--Interviews.
  Nurses--New South Wales--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21158811

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