Advantages of Transport and Flight Nursing

Transport Nursing began as Flight Nursing and the larger employment sector is said to be Air and Surface Transport Nursing. This work includes critical care, emergency services,and disaster response medical services. it includes not only Registered Nurses (RNs), but also EMTs and Paramedics. This field of medical work began to gel noticeably in the 1990s with the increase in US population, the increase in senior citizens in the aging populace, Middle Eastern wars, and natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.

The workplace can include hospital ships, emergency squad vehicles and ambulances, government winged and helio aircraft (particularly in wartime), commercial airliners,charterplanes, hospital helicopters, prison vehicles, and others. "Life Flight" services include quick helicopter delivery of patients and/or transplant organs to surgical arenas in fashion timely enough to prevent death. On the other end of the transport spectrum, nurses may aid in delivering patients from one department in a medical center to another department.

Certain companies specialize in hiring out nurses that work in both domestic and international partient trancport capacities around the clock. 

Medical Escort nurses often work on commerical airliners, accompanying patients in their journeys. Lile Travel Nurses, they likely earn a highly daly rate of pay than do most nurses that work in hospitals and clinics, They also have the opportunity of traveling to interesting locations at the customer's expense. Both of these are advantages over ground nursing.

Medical escort nurses help patients that have diffuclty moving or experience orthopedic conditions.  They may also need to care for those with behavioral disorders and neurological conditions. They may  help with oxygen and respiratory machinery. Some patients must be lifted from mobility devices in and out of vehicles. IV saline and medications will be administered in some cases throughout the journey. These RNs must be experienced and well prepared, which helps their careers in an intense way to become more successful.

Generally, in order to work in the field of transport nursing in the air or on the surface (land and sea), nurses must an active RN's license, proof of advanced recent training in life support, and substantial work experience in emergency and critical care services.

These nurses particularly must function effectively as part of a medical team, or risk losing the patients' lives. This is a team that must often:

1. Transport hurt/sick individuals from remote areas (disasters, war fields, ski slopes, mountains) to medical centers,
2. Evacuate injured people from disasters, and
3. Provide effective medical support one or more patients that must have continuous care,
4. Provide care to adultsm children, and infants.

These are life and death situations.

Increasingly, these nurses attain the BSN degree, and some go onto the Master’s Degree in Flight Nursing. This latter diploma combines the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner course with intense focus on emergency skills and disaster settings. Bioterrorism is a priority for treatment as well.

With all of these skills, training, certification, and experiences, Transport Nurses are extremely valuable workers.

1. San Antonio
2. Boston
3. Houston
4. Denver
5. Seattle
6. Baltimore
7. Salt Lake City
8. Cleveland, Ohio
9. Shreveport
10. Philadelphia
11. Albuquerque
12. Corpus Christi
13. Fort Worth
14. Wilmington, North Carolina

Texas is the state with the highest demand for Transport Nurses, listing openings in 5 cities: San Anotonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, and Fort Worth.

1. PSA Healthcare
2. Kaiser Permanente
3. Christus Health
4. Alacare Home Health & Hospice
5. Tenet Healthcare
6. Massachusetts General Hospital
7. Air Methods
8. Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9. INTEGRIS Health
10. Intermountain Healthcare
11. Genesis Healthcare
12. Catholic Health Initiatives
13. Omniflight
14. HCA Midwest Health System
15. University of Washington

The largest number of transport nurses are often advertised in:

1. Sechelt BC
2. Squamish BC
3. Central ON
4. Powell River BC
5. Dartmouth NS
6. Toronto ON
7. Calgary AB
8. St. John's NL
9. Quebec QC
10. Medicine Hat AB
11. Saint-Camillus QC
12. Windsor ON
13. Trois-rivieres QC

The largest number of transport nurse positions are most often advertised in the following cities:

1. London
2. Dartford
3. Bristol
4. City of London
5. Horsham
6. Basingstoke
7. Reading
8. Newcastle upon Tyne
9. North East England
10. North West London
11. Plymouth
12. Nottingham
13. Derby
14. South West England