Today I got up to go to the gym. I went to the gym this morning (I was losing out on sleep so it was a big deal), and took a shower when I got home to hurry and get ready for work. I saw that my phone said I had a new voicemail. I listened and it was one of the nurses from work saying that they had a mom that needed to transport to Medford, about 100 miles away, and they needed me to go with the patient on the flight. Now I did this once about 2-3 months ago, and am interested in doing this as a 2nd job, but haven't received any formal training yet. So, I got to work and got ready to take the patient to Medford. I was going to be flying with a regular flight nurse that works with the flight company and so she would do most of the stuff and I was there to help deal with the patient. Most of the time if at all possible we try and transport a pregnant woman with an OB flight nurse just because more than any other nurse in another specialty we would understand the needs that are unique to pregnant patients. We got the patient there safely. It's only about a 20 minute flight but takes about an hour to get there. It takes some extra time because we have to transport from our hospital to the airport, fly, and transport from the airport to the hospital and get her checked it. We love to deliver the babies to the other hospital in utero, because it's really hard to have a situation when we need to deliver them at our hospital.
Anyways, I thought I would share this. I am going to be meeting with the chief flight nurse on the 21st to go over what it will take for me to start working with them too. It's really great experience as a nruse and gives me more versitility in what I can do in the future.
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