A Career as a Flight Nurse

Every job has its positives and negatives to it but if your job is doing something you love, you will never work a day in your life. If someone enjoy helping, saving, and doing good for people, the medical field should be interesting to him or her. The great thing about the medical field is that it is so broad that there is a job for anyone and everyone out there no matter their skill set. For someone who is more of an adrenaline junky and into upbeat and exciting, fast pace work, the trauma side of the medical field would be for him or her, such as a Flight Nurse.

A Flight Nurses job is mainly to provide flight emergency medical care to someone who is seriously injured or sick and needs to be transported to the nearest hospital that is able to provide what they need very quickly, quicker than an ambulance is able to get them there. An example of a situation when someone would need medflighted out of an area would be if a hunter was attacked far out in the mountains, miles from a hospital, by an animal that nearly killed him or her but they were able to call for help. First a medical team would be sent in to locate and stabilize the injured hunter then relocate him or her to an area where a helicopter could hover closely over or land that way a medflight team would be able to load the injured hunter onto the helicopter and rescue them.

Although the first Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) Exam was not administered until 1993, nurses with the clinical expertise have existed for decades. Flight nursing's history can be traced back to 1925 when the U.S. Army Air Corps established a medical division strictly for healthcare purposes. Although it was not until World War II that the concept of medical air transport was openly emb...

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...whether it be a positive or a negative, sounds like something I would love to do everyday and make it my career. Like I said before, In any job there are ups and downs, but personally in this situation and on this career I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. Being able to save and help people on a daily basis sounds like a dream come true and if I am not busy doing that, I would be planning out routes for the helicopter to fly over to people, or learning how to use newer better equipment that would help me save lives. Everything about the job excites me and gives me an even bigger drive towards it, especially knowing the job is full of adrenaline and fast pace work. I would much rather do something upbeat and different everyday than do the same old boring thing day after day. Overall the job gets an A+ rating from me and I cannot wait to strive towards it.