Medical Flight Transportation And Medical Safety

As a little girl growing up, I watched my mother as she cared for nuclear and extended family members, people in the community and at church; it seemed like she was always taking care of people with a smile and a look of contentment. In the more than 30 years that she worked as a pediatric nurse, I looked forward to the one time in the year she was allowed to take me to work. Without realizing it, my admiration for my mother developed into a desire to help people and this influenced my dream to become a nurse. The final factor that defined my aspiration was the 14-year Liberian civil war; during this time I saw firsthand how much suffering people were going through with shortage in hospitals, doctors and nurses. A lot of people died because of poor health care and lack of qualified health care professionals.

Once they arrived in the war zone, Army, Navy, and Air Force nurses experienced professional strains of working with young, severely wounded casualties who were often younger than them. A Navy nurse recalled,

A flight nurse, as Lynn Manning put it,“ is a registered nurse, who takes care of a patient in a pre-hospital setting, similar to the EMS system. We get the patient to the hospital by air instead of by ground.” Digging a little deeper using the site flightnurse.com, it is much more complex than that. A flight nurse is a registered nurse who is highly trained in the area of critical or emergency care and must administer wide-ranging critical, emergency and pre-hospital care during a rescue or aeromedical evacuation on board aircrafts.

It broadened the nurses’ sense of the world, and “it is a crucible of humanity in which participants are given the opportunities to witness and understand extremes in human behavior” [5]. Nurses realized that the world lives like this the terrible poverty and the war all around them. They learned to live and work with people of different ages, religions, sexual orientations, and races [6]. On the other hand, many nurses suffered mental trauma after leaving Vietnam. Many of nurses suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder [7]. Numerous nurses experienced flashbacks and reminders of things they wished to forget. When military nurses came back, they were “viewed by many as a murderer instead of a healer, felt isolated and angry”. Nurses have to deal with a lifetime of sadness, loss, and pressure in one

After completing my bachelor’s degree at Florida State University in the fall of 1997, I began my career at a small hospital in Largo, Florida. I started on a thirty eight bed cardiac/telemetry unit. I had the fortunate opportunity to orient with a seasoned nurse who loved her career in nursing. She was an enthusiastic preceptor that not only educated me on the tasks of nursing but inspired and introduced me to critical care and critical thinking. I spent the next three years at this hospital working in the Coronary Care Unit until deciding to become a travel nurse and see the country. I began travel nursing with my best friend and we worked in Florida, Washington D.C., New York and Denver. At all of these locations we worked in the intensive care unit. Each experience provided a different population and vast new experiences.

Flight nurse’s and Flight Paramedics performs as members of an aeromedical crew on helicopters (rotor wing), and airplanes (fixed wing) aircraft, providing for in-flight management and care for all types of patients. Responsibilities of this job include the planning and preparation of flight, safety, evaluation of an individual patient's in-flight needs and request appropriate medications, supplies, and equipment to provide continuing care from origination to the destination facility. They act as liaisons between facilities during an interfacility transport and from scene location to trauma center during medical and trauma related emergencies. They also initiate emergency treatment in the absence of a physician during in-flight medical emergencies. Flight nurses and Flight Paramedics have training in mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic support, vasoactive medications, airway, and other intensive care skills.

How are you? How is it going? I am Bala; I am a flight medic from Clarksville Tn. I like your profile, enjoyed reading it. It is cool to know you value constant learning, passionate about helping people and making their life better.

Brideson, G., Willis, E., Mayner, L., & Chamberlain, D. J. (2016). Images of flight nursing in Australia: A study using institutional ethnography. Nursing & Health Sciences, 18(1), 38-43. http://dx.doi/10.1111/nhs.12225

After having many clinical years in the medical field, I have found what interests me most – Medicine. I have fallen in love with helping the sick and injured and being there for them when they are at their worst condition. It’s something that can’t be explained, but it is one of the most rewarding and fulfilling feelings in the world. The field of medicine is vast in that there are many different avenues one could take to pursue a career helping the sick. The path I have chosen thus far, is nursing. Specifically, flight nursing.

For the safety of medical staff, Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) federal laws passed in 2009, and states laws soon followed. Due to the weight capacity protocols and restrictions for equipment and medical staff, medical facilities must provide necessary mechanical lifts and sufficiently trained staff to manage the obese individual during transfers or transport (CDC, 2013). Health care entities must shoulder the additional costs that accompany these requirements. The costs could be taxing on the financial status of the health care entity.

Maya Angelou once said, “As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel” (Childs, 2012. p .2). Today I want to share information with you about nursing that provides insight on a well-known area, the emergency room. I have conducted extensive scholarly research on my topic to learn about nursing in the emergency department.

On behalf of the 24,000 United Flight Attendants, thank you for your professionalism and quick action during the medical emergency you experienced on flight #863 from San Francisco to Sydney on June 19, 2017. Every crew member plays an important role in situations onboard the aircraft and the teamwork and CRM you and your crew demonstrated during this crisis exemplifies why we are the industry’s true first responders. Your efforts were an inspiration to us all, and it reminds everyone, including the government and the traveling public, of the extraordinary training Flight Attendants receive and our ability to respond to a wide variety of sudden life-threatening events.

People all around the country are currently undergoing care in hospitals, doctors offices, or other care facilities. While these people come from all different races backgrounds religions and social status, they all have one common goal for the most part: to get back to full health. Not in Catch-22, the patients of the medical ward for the 256 Squadron

Urgency of acute care varies depending on the situation but can range to anything from emergency surgeries, to injuries, chronic illnesses, and also for the recovery of those procedures. Majority of the patients in acute care settings are critically ill. Nursing responsibilities in acute care settings are vital to patient’s recovery due to the front line position nurses play as well as the wide variety of tasks carried out. Assessments are made during every encounter the nurse has with the patient along with monitoring the patient’s progress. Nurses are responsible for recognizing symptoms the patient may be experiencing due to illness or injury and whether they fall in the spectrum of normal reactions. Vital signs are measured routinely and can be indicators of the patient’s current status. When vitals are questioned diagnostic tests can be arranged to further assess possible comorbidities the patient may have. Care plans are made to plan interventions the health care team can take to help patients through challenges they face, both physical and mental. Nurses administer medications as well as first aid as needed. They are responsible for maintaining special equipment patients may require including monitors and ventilators are well.

In the subject of flight safety there are many different components that must take place to have a safe flight. The instructor is one of the main teaching components of aviation safety. Such as going over the “human factor” of flight. This is one of the biggest obstacles of a piloting career, but it could be the greatest benefit as well. All of this is decided on three things main things.