Helipad Trauma Nursing

[TraumaBSN]

Any one work as a nurse on helicopter emergency transfers?? How did you get there, and what should I do to get there?

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

*** Ya we do accident scene too However for every accident scene we do I would guess we do 4 or 5 critical care transports. A couple months ago I intubated a man in a barn with a dead bull laying across his pelvice/legs by flashlight while standing calf deep in liquid cow manure. THAT is why I take a $14 an hour pay cut to do it :)

no kidding right??? every body thinks "You must be paid a ton of money? when I tell the NO they look puzzled and don't understand that we do it because we love it.

Now I have had some pretty unusual intubations...but I think you've got me, hands down, beat...now I get the avatar.... literally.... (LOL actually I was always the feces magnet as well)

And the Oscar goes to......

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Don't forget that any transport service that uses RNs is going to see a lot of acute medical patients. Yes trauma is a lot of fun but acute medical is the bread and butter.

I absolutely agree.....most transports are medically critical patients needing tertiary facilities....cardiac, premies, children, transplants.