Flight Nurse vs Flight Paramedic

[FlyMurse]

Until the other day, I had no idea there was a such thing as a flight paramedic. I thought all of them were flight nurses. What are the differences in pay and training of a flight nurse vs a flight paramedic? They both have the same job - to stabilize the patient for transport to a hospital, so how different can the training really be?

Thanks for the input!

Jeremy

[SummitRN, BSN, RN]

jadetateyana said:

Hi,

I was reading this article but I was doing research on to what's the steps of becoming a paramedic or just a paramedic ,I seen that some of the people who replies to this artice ,where or are currently medics. Is there any advice you can give me as in what you did to get to that postition ,what classes you took? did you voluunteer anywhere? and etc.

If you only have an interest in paramedicine and are seeking advice in that career path, I suggest you try emtlife.com as this is a nursing forum primarily. You could also try google; your question is extremely basic. My number one piece of advice is to work on your ability to write a coherent post with some attempt to spell and punctuate properly. Written communication is a required professional ability in any part of the medical field.

-SAP, EMT