Session Summary
If you’re interested in being a flight nurse, or just curious about what the job is really like for the mysterious onesie-wearing crews who pop in and out of your departments, this engaging session provides a deeper exposure and explores how it compares to the ICU. Highlighting aspects of autonomy, team dynamics, environment and safety, attendees get the inside scoop on what a day in the life of a flight nurse is really like. After diving into a complex ICU transport, a backcountry rescue and a postaccident/incident plan flight, you decide whether the reality matches your expectation.
Objectives
- Identify at least three commonalities between bedside and flight nursing.
- Explain at least three distinctions between bedside and flight nursing.
- Understand the importance of safety and crew resource management as it relates to flight nursing and aviation.
Topics
Career Development
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.