Flight nurse

I am going to talk about a flight nurse.

For becoming a flight nurse

In order to become a flight nurse, a registered nurse's qualification is required. They need to graduate from a junior college, a university, or a vocational school after the graduation from a high school, and need to acquire nurse license in response to a state examination. However, the qualification for becoming a flight nurse does not exist. The conditions for becoming a flight nurse vary with a hospital. However, in almost all cases, the years of service to the company for five years or more have been one standard. And in almost all hospitals, the nurse who becomes a flight nurse by a desire system is selected. Now, there is "target which the Japanese Society for Aeromedical Services flight nurse committee has proposed." There, things typical as conditions required since it becomes a flight nurse are the following conditions. "The experience as a nurse is for five years or more. And those who are experienced in the emergency care for three years or more. Furthermore, the nurse who can act as the leader as an emergency nurse" A suitable experience is required in order to work at the severe spot. The person who became a flight nurse has various reasons. However, emergency lifesaving is carried out as long as there is power which it can have as a flight nurse.

A flight nurse's places of work are two places, the inside of a hospital and a helicopter. Only a flight nurse's inside of a helicopter is not a place of work. The flight nurse is nursing the conveyed patient as a nurse usually in the critical care center of the House. The organization of emergency care is divided according to three severity of illness. Moreover, the organization of emergency care corresponds even in the secondary-medical-care area based on the medical scheme drawn up by all prefectures. The emergency lifesaving center where a flight nurse works is one of "the third emergency care.” The critical patient who cannot respond by secondary emergency care is accepted on a 24-hour basis. A flight nurse stands by in the emergency lifesaving center as a flight nurse several times per month, working at the spot accepted on a 24-hour basis. The flight nurse is nursing the always critical patient.

What kind of one day does the flight nurse of helicopter service pass?

They attend their office a little early in the morning. Because, it is for checking medical implements, medicine, and its own property so that a helicopter can be mobilized at any time. Moreover, a flight nurse's work also checks the contents of the doctor bag. If it becomes operating time of onset, a meeting will start. There is connection of the existence of the weather of the day, sunset time, and helicopter training, etc. They are helping the emergency visit between under standby.

If a mobilization request starts, the contents of the mobilization request will be checked at an operation measure room, and it will go to a heliport with a doctor. It takes only several minutes until a doctor helicopter flies away from a mobilization request. Within a helicopter, since sound is uncanny, a headset is attached, and information is exchanged. The equipment which will be considered to be required by the time it arrives at the spot is prepared, and it makes arrangements with a doctor. If it arrives at the spot, a doctor will hear a patient's appearance from a rescue crew. And the hospital of a conveyance place is contacted. Taking a measure, they ride on a doctor helicopter and go to a hospital. Required measures are taken also within the doctor helicopter which goes to the hospital of a conveyance place. Moreover, I get the family of attendance to speak about a detailed condition. If it arrives at a hospital, the appearance of the patient within a doctor helicopter will be reported to an emergency visit's doctor and nurse.

And it prepares for the next mobilization request and fills up medical implements, medicine, etc. which were used. If standby time is completed, a flight nurse will write record of the mobilized helicopter to a diary. Moreover, the flight staff of the day gathers and there is also a hospital which is holding the meeting.