Currently, the flight certificate program is designed to introduce advanced critical care to nurses at the advanced practice level who will be practicing in the critical care transport setting. The ...

Thirty years ago, D. Todd Smith, PhD, loaded a crash victim into a medical helicopter and helped the flight nurse manage the patient’s airway with an endotracheal tube. It was at that moment—thousands ...

A nonprofit dedicated to flight nurses will name a scholarship after a Stacie Morse, a flight nurse killed in a Guardian Flight crash near Kake last year. “It’s wonderful and it’s definitely something ...

When accidents and life-threatening injuries occur, time is of the essence between the scene and medical care. That’s when air transport staffed by trained medical professionals arrive and their care ...

Imagine being strapped into a helicopter, racing against time while performing lifesaving procedures in a space smaller than your closet. Welcome to the adrenaline-fueled world of flight nursing.

When severely injured, wounded or sick service members require transportation via airlift, medical care can’t stop mid-flight. As senior members of aeromedical evacuation teams, it’s the ...

One of the most celebrated flight nurses of World War II, 1st Lt. Aleda E. Lutz, flew 196 missions and evacuated more than 3,500 soldiers. Lutz enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps on Feb. 10, 1942, and ...

On the hot Saturday night of Labor Day weekend in 2002, Jon Hagen was working his regular evening shift as a flight nurse on a medical helicopter in Wisconsin when a call came through about a rollover ...

Update 1:50 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11: The family of flight nurse Susan "Suzie" Smith has confirmed she died from injuries sustained in Monday night's helicopter crash. "Suzie’s life was not wasted but ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A STAR Flight nurse fell to her death Monday night during a rescue in the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Kristin McLain, who served as a flight nurse and rescuer on the chopper, was part of a ...

Some it seems like are born knowing what career they will go into while others ask for advice from those who know them the most on what they should go pursue. In the instance of Sam Howard of Chaffee, ...

Mark Coenen was there when ThedaStar’s first flights took off over 30 years ago in the Fox Valley. When he first got to what was then named Theda Clark Medical Center, staff were rallying in the ...