Currently, the flight certificate program is designed to introduce advanced critical care to nurses at the advanced practice level who will be practicing in the critical care transport setting. The ...

Thirty years ago, D. Todd Smith, PhD, loaded a crash victim into a medical helicopter and helped the flight nurse manage the patient’s airway with an endotracheal tube. It was at that moment—thousands ...

Imagine being strapped into a helicopter, racing against time while performing lifesaving procedures in a space smaller than your closet. Welcome to the adrenaline-fueled world of flight nursing.

A nonprofit dedicated to flight nurses will name a scholarship after a Stacie Morse, a flight nurse killed in a Guardian Flight crash near Kake last year. “It’s wonderful and it’s definitely something ...

When accidents and life-threatening injuries occur, time is of the essence between the scene and medical care. That’s when air transport staffed by trained medical professionals arrive and their care ...

Some it seems like are born knowing what career they will go into while others ask for advice from those who know them the most on what they should go pursue. In the instance of Sam Howard of Chaffee, ...

When severely injured, wounded or sick service members require transportation via airlift, medical care can’t stop mid-flight. As senior members of aeromedical evacuation teams, it’s the ...

On the hot Saturday night of Labor Day weekend in 2002, Jon Hagen was working his regular evening shift as a flight nurse on a medical helicopter in Wisconsin when a call came through about a rollover ...

Christi Carson, a registered nurse at UPMC Chautauqua, who flew twice on Stat MedEvac helicopters during the last year, has been named an honorary Stat MedEvac flight nurse. Submitted photo A nurse ...

FRISCO, Colo. (CBS4)- Flight For Life nurse Matt Bowe returned to work on Tuesday a little more than four months after a helicopter crash that killed the pilot and left the other nurse on board ...

Six flight nurses soaring through 24-hour medevac shifts above Chicago discovered they're all expecting babies, turning their ...