Reflections of a Flight Nurse, Paramedic, Skydiver, and Army Reserve Commander
Posted in Flight Nursing on Oct 18th, 2008
Well, I am off to the great city of Minneapolis for the Air Medical Transport Conference. Should be an interesting week.
Anyone in the area interested in a Sweetest Day beer? Better yet, anyone else going to the conference?
Oh, and Mark? I almost cried when I saw that you won’t be there!
Just for the record, [...]
Posted in Flight Nursing, Office Window on Aug 31st, 2008
It is simply amazing to go from the world of mortals to the realm of angels in a few short moments.
Posted in Flight Nursing on Aug 27th, 2008
The acuity of a flight can, in most cases, be deduced by the number and type of supplies needed to restock the aircraft.
I took this photo after one of the most broken trauma patients I have flown.
It isn’t a great photo, but you should be able to play ‘Guess the Intervention’ with the [...]
Posted in Office Window on Aug 10th, 2008
Out of all the emergency medicine superstitions the one I subscribe to most is the belief that things come in groups of three. A week and a half ago it was three bad traumatic head injuries.
I after my second pediatric ICU transfer Friday, I told the attending physician I would be back. Although the [...]
Posted in Flight Nursing on Aug 9th, 2008
All dressed up and canceled off of both the scene and the interfacility standby requests which were called in almost at the same time.
Bummer.
Guess we will head home.
Posted in Office Window on Aug 9th, 2008
Yesterday was long. Very long. We did around 4 flight hours going to the tip of the mitten, not once, but twice! Fortunately the weather was amazing and it has kept that way so far today.
Today, we took a trip over the river as we were headed up to our remote base. What an [...]
Posted in Office Window on Aug 8th, 2008
Wow. That is all I can say.
Posted in Flight Nursing on Jun 26th, 2008
I was asked why I wanted to be a flight nurse. The question perplexed me. The better question probably should have been: Why wouldn’t I want to be a flight nurse?
After my first bad patient flight as a flight medic, I knew this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It [...]
Posted in Becoming a Flight Nurse, vBlog on Jun 11th, 2008
I thought that in Part II of “What is a Flight Nurse, Exactly” the cool factor could only be described in living color.
A Flight Nurse is quite simply, Hope. Hope to patients, families and the communities they serve. They are also part of a crew who’s members are represented by the individuals here.
Posted in Flight Nursing on Mar 24th, 2008
Today I hung up the lab coat of the Nurse Practitioner and replaced it with the tactical vest of the Flight Nurse. I don’t wear multiple hats, I wear multiple helmets!
It was a busy weekend in the emergency room where I work as a nurse practitioner. Although this series of shifts was awesome [...]
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