What are the responsibilities and job description for the Flight Nurse OR Paramedic position at Regional West Health Services?
Regional West Health Services is an independent, integrated health care delivery system based in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. We are actively looking for an individual to assist the team as a Flight Nurse OR Flight Paramedic for our Air Link team.
As an RWHS Flight Nurse or Paramedic, you will:
- Deliver care to critically ill or injured patients during transport, primarily by aircraft
- Perform patient assessment and evaluation using accepted procedures and equipment to treat life threatening, emergent, urgent, and non-urgent medical and traumatic patient complaints
- Perform interventions based on assessment findings, following patient care protocols, and Air Link protocols in cooperation with another medical crew member, the medical directors, and the monitoring physician
You may be a good fit if you have:
- Graduated from an accredited school of nursing or paramedic program with NRP required
- If RN Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) and CFRN preferred
- If Paramedic FP-C preferred
- Paramedics must be licensed in NE, WY, CO, KS and SD (WY, CO, KS, SD can be obtained after hire).
- BLS, ACLS, PALS, and NRP certifications required
- TPATC provider (or ATLS audit) preferred
- Advanced certification (CFRN or CTRN) is required for nurses who have been employed for more than 2 years.
- Flight Paramedic Certified (FP-C) is required for nurses who have been employed for more than 2 years.
- Three years of demonstrated clinical experience as a critical care and/or emergency nurse OR three years of demonstrated clinical experience as a ground critical care paramedic.
- Flight experience preferred
- Pre-hospital transport suggested
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